The Ethics Behind Assessment
Introduction
As an advanced practice nurse, you will run into situations where a patients wishes about his or her health conflict with evidence, your own experience, or a familys wishes. This may create an ethical dilemma. What do you do when these situations occur?
In this Assignment, you will explore evidence-based practice guidelines and ethical considerations for specific scenarios.
Throughout this course, you have explored a wide range of health assessments and abnormal examination findings. Although you have predominantly focused on the procedural aspects of health assessment, this week, you will focus on ethical considerations that should be taken into account when advising patients or their families.
You will consider how evidence-based practice guidelines and ethical considerations factor into health assessments. You will also evaluate health assessment concepts related to sports physicals and well-child and well-woman examinations.
Learning Objectives:
Students will:
Apply evidence-based practice guidelines to make an informed healthcare decision.
Apply ethical considerations to a health assessment response.
Apply concepts, theories, and principles relating to sports physicals and well-child and well-woman examinations.
Identify concepts, theories, and principles related to advanced health assessment.
Assignment: Ethical Concerns
Based on the Case Study scenario provided:
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 case study scenario you selected.
CASE STUDY 2
A 17-year-old boy has come in for a check-up after a head injury during a football game.
He has indicated that he would like to be able to play in the next game, which is in 3 days
The Assignment:
Write a detailed two-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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