Advocacy Paper 4-5 pages
Week 7 Advocacy Paper
Choose a patient-care situation in which the RN should intervene and advocate for the patient. An example of such a situation might be when a patient has not been given complete informed consent.
Include the following in your paper:
- Describe the clinical situation concisely and descriptively. It can be an actual situation or a hypothetical one.
- Apply the Bioethical Decision Making Model
to the specific clinical ethical situation that you choose. Address each section of the model in your paper.(Attached is the Bioethical model) - Conclude with a discussion of nursing advocacy in the clinical setting and the nurse’s role as a patient advocate.
Your paper should be 4-5 pages.
You must reference and cite 1-2 scholarly sources other than your text. Include a title page and a reference page to cite your text and adhere to APA formatting.
Answer preview
Healthcare givers are required to provide the patient with the right information concerning their health status precisely and at the right time without placing them in a restless condition that would delay proper medication. Fulfilling the rights of the patients and evaluation of the surrounding circumstances is an ethical dilemma with nurses and doctors choosing the latter. Consider a mental health patient whose family members or insurance service providers demand that the patient is protected from their status or otherwise they would withdraw their services (Varcarolis, 2016). However protective the situation would be to the patient the caregiver denies the patient their right to make proper health care decisions and are manipulated to treatment without their knowledge…
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