ASSIGNMENT l ETHICS AND LAW FOR NURSE MANAGERS.

Running head: ETHICS AND LAW FOR NURSE MANAGERS
ETHICS AND LAW FOR NURSE MANAGERS
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ETHICS AND LAW FOR NURSE MANAGERS
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Question 1:
Implied consent should be taken from the patients when assumptions have been made
that the patient has given consent to an intervention by his or her activity (Stolt et al., 2018).
In this current context, the three nursing intervention that requires implied consent include a)
at the time of evaluation of blood pressure when patient is participating in the action b) the
when an individual’s become unconscious at the workplace and unable to provide informed
consent but considering his situation, he requires urgent administration from the nurses and
lastly c) during the complication of normal birth-giving when mother refused to give consent
for caesarean delivery when it is necessary (Barber, 2019).
Question 2:
While providing personal information of an individual to another professional in the
form of handover for the second opinion is needed, explicit consent is needed. It is generally
obtained from patients as evidence that the patient agreed to use or disseminate personal
information (Vryonides et al., 2015)
Question 3:
Beneficence is defined as the perspective of mercy and kindness, indicating it
maximizes the benefits of the patients by preventing any kinds of treatment errors (Vryonides
et al., 2015). In this context, the beneficence principle of medical ethics experience conflicts
in few circumstances such as injecting medication to injured patients, administration of
vaccines to the patients and performing certain activities for the mental health patients
(Epstein & Turner 2015). This conflict can be addressed by incorporating the family
members in the care and provide the literacy to the family members that although moral