Ethical Concerns

Assignment 1: Lab
Assignment: Ethical Concerns
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As an advanced practice nurse, you will
run into situations where a patient’s wishes about his or her health conflict
with evidence, your own experience, or a family’s wishes. This may create an
ethical dilemma. What do you do when these situations occur?
In this Lab Assignment, you will
explore evidence-based practice guidelines and ethical considerations for
specific scenarios.
To Prepare
Review the scenarios provided by your instructor
for this week’s Assignment. Please see the “Course Announcements” section of
the classroom for your scenarios.
Based on the scenarios provided:

Select one scenario,
and reflect on the material presented throughout this course.
What necessary information
would need to be obtained about the patient through health assessments
and diagnostic tests?
Consider how you would
respond as an advanced practice nurse. Review evidence-based practice
guidelines and ethical considerations applicable to the scenarios you
selected.

The Lab Assignment
Write a detailed one-page
narrative (not a formal paper) explaining the health assessment information
required for a diagnosis of your selected patient (include the scenario number).
Explain how you would respond to the scenario as an advanced practice nurse
using evidence-based practice guidelines and applying ethical considerations.
Justify your response using at least three different references from current
evidence-based literature.

This week we will learn about situations where
a patient’s wishes about his or her health conflict with evidence, your own
experience, or a family’s wishes. This may create an ethical dilemma. What do
you do when these situations occur?
In this Lab Assignment, you will explore
evidence-based practice guidelines and ethical considerations for specific
scenarios.
To Prepare
CASE STUDY A
The parents of a 5-year-old boy have
accompanied their son for his required physical
examination before starting kindergarten. His
parents are opposed to him receiving any
vaccines.
OR
CASE STUDY B
A 57-year-old man who was diagnosed with motor
neuron disease 2 years ago is
experiencing a rapid decline in his condition.
He prefers to be admitted to the in-patient
unit at a hospice to receive end-of-life care,
but his wife wants him to remain at home.

Select one scenario from above, and reflect on the material presented
throughout this course.
What necessary information would need to be
obtained about the patient through health assessments and diagnostic tests?
Consider how you would respond as an advanced
practice nurse. Review evidence-based practice guidelines and ethical
considerations applicable to the scenarios you selected.

The Lab Assignment
Write a detailed one-page narrative (not a
formal paper) explaining the health assessment information required for a
diagnosis of your selected patient (include the scenario number). Explain how
you would respond to the scenario as an advanced practice nurse using
evidence-based practice guidelines and applying ethical considerations. Justify
your response using at least three different references from current
evidence-based literature.

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