Two pages single spaced
This paper covers an ethical dilemma in psychiatric nursing practice. You will need to identify and research a core ethical dilemma and plausible solutions (at an institutional or policy level).
These are points you must cover.
You must cover the ethics of this situation: it is an appeal to beneficence and maximizing their physical health.
Smoking tobacco is the world’s leading cause of preventable illness and death.
Tobacco smoking rates are significantly higher in people with mental illness compared to those without. However, Patients with a mental health diagnosis are not getting the same education on stopping smoking as the general public, when they come in for Psychiatric visits.
Smoking cessation treatment could be offered as part of an outpatient office visit, but currently is not.
Some mental health providers have rationalized that their failure to treat tobacco dependence is a form of harm reduction in that their clients’ tobacco use is viewed as a healthier alternative to alcohol or illicit drug abuse. Tobacco use, however, does not meet the philosophy and principles of the harm reduction model. As treatment providers, it is their ethical duty to do so.
Failure to treat tobacco dependence with effective, available treatments according to recognized clinical practice guidelines is unethical and in violation of the legal duty of health care providers.
The solution would be to provide tobacco cessation during an office visit when patients come to see the Nurse Practitioner for a Psychiatric Mental Health visit.
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