Week 2 Assignment Scenario As a member of the Nursing Ethics committee in your organization you have been asked to create a poster presentation for the nursing staff breakroom for display during the upcoming Nurses’ Week

Week 2 Assignment

Scenario

As a member of the Nursing Ethics committee in your organization you have been asked to create a poster presentation for the nursing staff breakroom for display during the upcoming Nurses’ Week. You look forward to this opportunity to share how ethical principles, theoretical frameworks, and the Code of Ethics for Nurses, can influence decision making in the face of controversy. The poster presentation should feature ethical principles, theories, and standards that guide ethical nursing practice pertaining to a current real-world controversial healthcare situation in your workplace or current news.

Instructions

Include the following detail in your poster presentation:

Summarize the controversial healthcare situation chosen from your workplace or current news.

Explain how five ethical principles relate to and influence the healthcare decisions made by nurses or clients pertaining to the controversial healthcare situation. Support with credible referencing.

Compare and contrast two theoretical frameworks as they guide decision making related to the controversial healthcare situation. Support with credible referencing.

Explain how five of the nine provisions of the ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses relate to and influence healthcare decisions made by nurses or clients in healthcare decisions pertaining to the controversial healthcare situation. Support with credible referencing.

Week 5 Assignment

Scenario

As an active Nurse member of the American Nurses Association (ANA) you are committed to engaging in activities related to health policy issues. To demonstrate your role as a client advocate you are writing a letter to a policy task force, or a legislative member or committee, pertaining to legal and professional policies associated with genetic discrimination that you have read about in the news.

Instructions

Write a sample letter to a policy task force, or a legislative member or committee, that demonstrates client advocacy pertaining to genetic discrimination and it’s correlation to legal and professional policies.

Make sure to include the following details in the letter:

A description/background of the genetic discrimination

What is the specific problem?

A description of the related legal policy

A description of the related professional policy

A differentiation of the levels of policy and impact variations

Your input that defends your advocacy for clients impacted by the discrimination

Week 6 Assignment

Scenario

You are a new graduate nurse caring for a patient that received a positive result from a genetic or genomic testing technology. Part of your role as a general nurse in genetic and genomic care is to provide accurate information, ensure appropriate patient referral, and serve as a patient advocate.

Instructions

Develop a plan of care that identifies nursing strategies that incorporate genetic and genomic risk factors, three interprofessional resources, and three referral resources for a client that has a positive result from a genetic or genomic testing technology that you explain.

Your plan of care will be presented in a Word document that includes the following sections:

Explanation a specific genetic or genomic testing technology

Describe what positive results of the testing technology indicates

Design a plan of nursing care strategies based on positive results

Describe three interprofessional resources in planning care for clients with genetic and genomic needs

Determine three resources for facilitation of genetic and genomic referrals