Nursing Ethics
Author: Dana Bartlett, BSN, MSN, MA, CSPI
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Dana Bartlett, BSN, MSN, MA, CSPI
Dana Bartlett is a professional nurse and author. His clinical experience includes 16 years of ICU and ER experience and over 20 years of as a poison control center information specialist. Dana has published numerous CE and journal articles, written NCLEX material, written textbook chapters, and done editing and reviewing for publishers such as Elsevier, Lippincott, and Thieme. He has written widely on the subject of toxicology and was recently named a contributing editor, toxicology section, for Critical Care Nurse journal. He is currently employed at the Connecticut Poison Control Center and is actively involved in lecturing and mentoring nurses, emergency medical residents and pharmacy students.
CE:
2
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Pharmacotherapeutics Credits: 0
Related to prescribing controlled substances: 0
Course Summary
The relationship between a nurse and patient involves values of trust, responsibility, and care. The healthcare setting is a professional environment where a nurse interacts not only with patients and their family members but also with co-workers and other interdisciplinary health team members. Each profession has its specific ethical considerations, and ethics is an important part of the nursing role during daily interactions with health team members, in the delivery of patient care, and when engaging with patients’ family members. The following sections will examine ethics specific to the nursing profession.
Course Format
Homestudy
Course Syllabus
- Introduction
- Ethics, Values, and Morals
- Ethics
- Values
- Morals
- Ethics, Law, Religion, and Conscience
- The Nursing Profession and Ethics
- ANA Code of Ethics: Provisions and Practical Applications
- Provision Number 1
- Provision Number 2
- Provision Number 3
- Other Provisions of the ANA Code of Ethics
- The Process of Making Ethical Decisions
- Ethical Decision-Making
- Process of Ethical Decision-Making
- Case Study: The Revised ANA Nursing Standards and Duty to Warn
- FAP Risk and Management
- Right to Know or Not, and Duty to Know
- Duty to Warn or Rescue
- Informed Consent
- Gene Banks and Ethical Aspects
- Discussion
- Summary