Ethics and Law for Nurses

Running head: NURSING
Ethics and law for nurses
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NURSING1
Question 1:
Barber (2019), highlighted implied consent has been obtained from the patients when
the professionals assumed that the patient already provided consent to the intervention
through his or her activity. In this context, three interventions in nursing in which the
patient’s consent are including 1) during the complication of the normal delivery where it is
essential to conduct caesarean delivery, even if the patient refuses to provide consent for the
caesarean delivery. 2) when an employee become unconscious in the construction site and
considering his situation, he is unable to provide consent but it is an event that he
requires urgent first aid by nurses 3) during the time of the assessment of vital status such as
blood pressure when the patient participate in the intervention without stating anything (Kaye
et al., 2015).
Question 2:
Explicit consent is a type of consent which is presented as evidence of agreeing or
disagreeing by the patients. Explicit consent is obtained from the patient when the
information of the patient is used by the nurse during transferring the medical record or
patient history in the technology or while the information is shared by nurses to another
health professional for the second opinion (Gustafsson & Stenberg, 2017).
Question 3:
In the medical or bioethics, the principle beneficence consists of the perspective of
the welfare of the patient. In other words, it can be said that the health professionals should
involve patients in the treatments or care plans which maximize the benefit of the patient.
However, this principle can be violated in a few situations such as administrating medication
to the injured patient, resuscitating a patient who was drowning and performing vaccination
for the children (Gustafsson & Stenberg, 2017). This conflicts raised from the medical field
can be prevented by involving the family members of the patients and providing the family