Ethics discussion questions

1.   Integration of Evidence-Based Practice Into Professional Nursing practice.

As the professional nurse, you realize that your nursing care area often sees patients with the same particularly challenging nursing care issue (NOT medical care issue). Include allof the following in your answer to this discussion:

• Identify the nursing care issue or problem and justify why it is a nursing care issue in need of implementation of evidence. Remember, this should not be a medical issue.
• Explain how you would search the nursing literature for evidence on this topic (including search terms you would use) and how you would critically appraise the evidence found in your search. NOTE: You do not need to perform the search and provide an article for this discussion, but you may do so if you like.

2.   Nursing Roles in Quality Improvement.

How do nurses promote patient safety and improve quality at your workplace? How do you report errors and near misses? What changes would you suggest be made on your unit or facility to improve a non-punitive culture of safety?

3.   Leadership in Diverse Situations

Nurses demonstrate leadership in many situations. For this discussion, select one of the following situations that you have not previously experienced and tell us how the nurse would demonstrate leadership in that situation:

• Communicating with legislators to influence health policy1
• Clinical leadership at the bedside
• Nursing management of units or facilities
• Impact of systems-based practice on leadership

4.   Use of Informatics in Professional Nursing.

How do you use informatics and technology in your nursing practice? How do you see that use changing in the future? What ethical issues have arisen or might arise from use of technology and informatics in professional nursing?

5.AACN BSN Essentials and Your Future Practice.

Question: Select one of the AACN BSN Essentials and elaborate on its meaning and importance in your own future professional nursing practice. In your post intended to clearly and thoroughly address the topic of this TD, be sure to:

• Identify the AACN BSN Essential that you have selected by name and number.
• Clearly and thoroughly explain why you selected this Essential.
• Clearly and thoroughly explain how this Essential will be used in your future professional nursing career.

Pls chose any topic  from the link I attached in AACN below for question 5. Thanks The links to answer the  topic questions.  http://www.aacn.nche.edu/ > [8/15/2016]

6.Topic: Application of Nursing Theory to Practice.

You are a professional nurse caring for Mr. R, a 58-year-old patient who recently underwent surgery for colon cancer resulting in a temporary colostomy. Select one of the assigned or unassigned nursing theories from our textbook and address the following:

• How you would provide professional nursing care for Mr. R. using the theory you have selected. Be sure to use terminology from the selected nursing theory to explain your interventions.
• Relate application of legal and/or ethical standards to this case study.

Last week’s module focused on the ancient Greek ideas behind an ethics of VIRTUE or CHARACTER. As we saw, and debated on the boards, the Greeks believed that living a good LIFE required more than just doing good ACTIONS, it required have a consistent and good character.  I posed a question about role models last week for you to consider and we had a nice discussion about that.

This week, we move to the ethics of care, an offspring of feminist ethics, that asks us to look at ethics from the perspective of relationships.  It is a theory that doesn’t require a set of rules (as utilitarianism or Kant might) but instead asks us to look at how relationships impact moral choices.  It is similar to, but not the same as, virtue ethics.

Here are some ideas that can start this week’s discussion.

A reminder: you’re supposed to post your own response to one of my questions AND respond thoughtfully to TWO of your classmates replies each week.

Questions:

1. This approach to ethics was once called “feminist ethics” but the name has changed.  Why do you think calling it an ‘ethics of care’ is better or more effective than calling it ‘feminist ethics’?

2. This approach to ethics is noted for having NO PRINCIPLES.  There is no one central, unbreakable rule to ethics of care like there is in utilitarianism or in Kant’s theory.  Is the lack of a central rule/set of rules a GOOD or a BAD thing, in terms of an ethical theory?

3. Ethics of care approaches the resolution of conflicts in a different way than a utilitarian or even a set of legal rules might do it.  Consider the case of a very contested divorce custody battle: how might an ethics of care tell us to resolve this, and compare that to how our legal system might currently do it.

3. Ethics of care approaches the resolution of conflicts in a different way than a utilitarian or even a set of legal rules might do it.  Consider the case of a very contested divorce custody battle: how might an ethics of care tell us to resolve this, and compare that to how our legal system might currently do