University Nursing Laws and Ethics: Case Study and Analysis Report

This report delves into the critical intersection of nursing laws and ethics, examining the responsibilities and accountabilities of registered nurses in providing patient care. It explores the legal and ethical frameworks guiding nursing practice, emphasizing the importance of competence, evidence-based care, and adherence to professional standards. The report analyzes various case studies involving ethical dilemmas, such as a nurse's drug possession, unprofessional conduct of students, and staffing shortages, to illustrate the practical application of ethical principles like justice and the importance of upholding patient rights. It also investigates the broader context of healthcare delivery systems, including the roles of healthcare organizations and educational institutions in maintaining quality care and promoting professional development. The report underscores the impact of healthcare policies, insurance, and public health initiatives on patient outcomes and the crucial role of healthcare professionals in advocating for improved health services and ethical practices.

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Nursing laws and ethics
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Task A
The registered nurse always demonstrates the competence and the provision for the care given by
the nurses for that can be specified by the requirements of the registration. The registered nurses
actually practices independently and in a interdependent manner (Broadbent et al., 2014). They
often assume the accountability and are responsible for their self activities and the delegations of
the care for enrolling the nurses and the healthcare workers. The delegations are always taken
into considerations and the education and the training of the enrolled the nurses and the
healthcare workers and for the context of the care. The registered nurses provides the evidence
based care for nursing for the people for all the ages and for the cultural groups that includes the
individuals, communities and the families.
The main role of the nurses who are registered includes the promotion and the maintenance of
the health and the prevention of the illness for the individuals who have the physical or the
mental illness, the disabilities and the needs for rehabilitation as well as the alleviation for the
pain and the suffering that the patients suffer at the end of their lives. The registered nurses tends
to assess, plan, evaluate and implements care of nursing in the collaboration of the individuals
and for the multidisciplinary form of the healthcare team and for achieving the goals and the
outcomes of the healthcare (American Diabetes Association 2016). The registered nurses
essentially provides an amount of care in the ranges of the settings that may often include the
acute, community, residential and the extended form of the care settings, institution for education
and homes for the modification of the practice with accordance to the model of the care delivery.

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The registered nurses always takes the role of the leadership in the coordination of the nursing
and the health care that are within and across the different form of the care services that can be
done for the facilitation of the optimal healthcare options. This phenomenon includes the
appropriate form of the referrals and the consultations with the other form of the health
professionals, service providers and the support services of the community. The reregistered
nurse often contributes to the quality healthcare and through the lifelong form of learning and the
professional form of the development of the professionals. The research data generation is
through the clinical form of supervision and the development of the policy and the clinical form
of practice guidelines.
The nurses, midwives and the healthcare professionals needs to take care of their all legal and
ethical responsibilities that requires the demonstration of the satisfactory form of the base of the
knowledge that are accountable for the practice, functioning in accordance with the various
legislations that are affecting the nursing and the healthcare for the protection of the individual
and the rights of the group.
The healthcare providers also have to be self appraised and there should be a professional form
of development that have the value of the evidence and the practice based on research. While
reflecting towards the practice, feelings and the consequences for the individuals is an important
form of the professional benchmarks. The domains essentially relates to the coordination,
provision and the organization for providing the nursing care for assessing the individuals,
planning and the implementation and the evaluation of the care. This has the direct relation to the
establishment, sustainability and the conclusion for the professional form of relationship that are
formed in the individual or the group. It has been clearly indicated that there are literature that
has been prior to the administration of the treatment for performing the clinical form of

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intervention that have been undertaken for investigating and assisting with the care that are been
provided by the healthcare professionals.
However, for case 1 it can be seen that the core workers has fallen sick and they are unable to
give the care to the patients. However, the law in the healthcare sectors holds a bodily form of
integrity in a high form of regards. This phenomenon means that the individuals have full right to
determine what actually happens in their body and what are the actual elements that are required
for the process of decision-making (Kozier et al. 2015).
In case 2, the ethical law that should be practiced will be the law of justice. The registered nurse
who has been arrested for n arrested for possession of methylenedioxymethamphetamine
(MDMA) and has been charged with an attempt to this. Therefore, it important that the
healthcare organization to know about the mishap.
It is very much evident from case 3, that the students are taking alcohol at the time of their duty
that cannot be pardoned. Therefore, it is the ethical duty of the registered nurses to take strict
actions against the students and take care of the concerned patients.
Task B
Considering the role of the healthcare sectors, assuring the national health of the committee have
been taken as the starting point for the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine. It had been
said that all the health care organizations have been there in the professional groups that has been

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in the private and the public form of the purchasers that may adopt to the explicit purposes for
the continuous reduction of the burden of the illness, disability and the illness that can be
required for the improvement of the health and the functioning of the people.
The sector of healthcare includes the regulations, forms of the voluntary and the other form of
the governmental organizations. However, these form of the individuals and the organizations
have generally referred to the collective form of the group that is known as the healthcare
delivery systems (Stein-Parbury 2013). The communication, collaboration and system planning
among all the discrete entities are being limited that has been almost incidental for the
operations. However, for the convenience, the community tends to the common terminology of
the healthcare delivery system.
It has been argued by the several healthcare providers there are various regulations that can be
added to the costs and there are several high profile form of problems that have created the
additional form of the tensions that are necessary for impeding the collaborations between the
state public health and the agency for the healthcare delivery systems.
Moreover, it has been observed that the delivery of the health care through the private form of
the private sectors have faltered due to the responsibility that can be provided in some of the
levels of the basic form of the healthcare services for the poor and the population that have been
fallen in the governmental agencies that are important for the services of public health. In various
jurisdictions, the default in the consumption of the resources and the impairment of the ability of
the agencies of the public health for performing is one of the other essential forms of the tasks.
The healthcare sector is not the only organization that is holds the strongest determinants of
health; however, it is the most vital. Therefore, people are always under the health insurance.

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The health insurance covers the better health care outcomes for the adults. It has been also
associated with having the regular sources of the care that can be greater and the more
appropriate form of the use for the health services (World Health Organization 2015). These
factors in turn have the improvement of the likeliness of the screening of the disease and for the
early detection that are there for the management of the chronic illness and the effective form of
the treatment for the acute conditions (Tollefson 2012).
The private form of the insurances are to be predominantly been purchased for the employment
based groups that needs lesser extension through the policies that are done on the individual
basis. The policy funding insurance are provided primarily through the seven forms of the
governmental programs. The Medicare somehow provides the coverage of about 14 % of the
population whereas there are 11% of the population. Moreover, there is a support from the public
funding.
However, in all the three cases, the role of the health facility and the education provider of health
are very crucial. In case of case 3, we can see that the students of healthcare were performing the
act of unprofessionalism. Therefore, it is essential for the professionals who have gathered some
experience, penalize and educate the students about the boundaries in their behaviour. They
should be educated about the importance of their profession. In case 2, the registered nurses have
taken some chemicals from the hospital and have not informed the authority. However, it is very
important to make her understand about the ethical and the unethical practices of healthcare.
Therefore I feel that the implications for the health facility and/or education provider is required
in the healthcare profession.

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