Kaplan MN506 All Discussion

Kaplan MN506 All Discussion

Kaplan MN506 Unit 1 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February

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Topic 1: Nursing Leaders as Ethical-Legal Change Agents in Health Care
In the course, you will research ethical decision-making and legal issues that influence your role as a nursing leader. Please take this opportunity to introduce yourself and explain how you see your role as a nursing leader making ethical-legal and moral decisions. Include what actions you plan to take to solve moral distress caused by ethical dilemmas and the values that support your actions.

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Topic 2: Comparing Ethical Principles
Compare two ethical principles that apply to ethical decision-making and how each one fits your own personal belief system and the role of the advanced practice nurse.

Kaplan MN506 Unit 2 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: Advanced Practice Nursing Decisions that Cause Moral Distress

Choose an ethical-legal dilemma that would cause the advanced practice nurse moral distress. The dilemma could be one you have faced in your practice. Write at least the introductory paragraphs for the Unit 4 Assignment. Be specific about the dilemma — something you may have experienced in your practice. Outline the topics that will be discussed in the Unit 4 Assignment using level one APA headings.

Use the APA template provided in the class for this paper. It is on the left navigation tab and is set up for all papers in APA format. Place the beginning of your paper in the Discussion Board for all to read and critique.

After receiving feedback from your peers and instructor, work on refining the paper to submit in Unit 4. Choose someone to peer review that does not have feedback.

Cite and reference at least three nursing peer reviewed articles to support the content in the paragraph. In the final Assignment, you will have a minimum of seven references relating to legal and ethical issues.

Chapter 16, titled Effective Peer Reviews, in the Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing handbook explains the importance of conducting peer reviews (critiques), how to conduct the peer review, and how to help your classmates and the reviewer achieve an improved learning experience.

Review pages 213–219 of Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing.

https://kucampus.kaplan.edu/DocumentStore/Docs10/pdf/WC/Section4_Peer_Reviews_Grammar_and_Grading.pdf

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Topic 2: Evaluation of Ethical Models and the Ethics Committee
You identified an ethical dilemma in Discussion topic 1 of this unit. Present your dilemma to the ethics committee of your institution. Outline an ethical theory or model you wish the committee to consider when reviewing this case. What arguments do you have to support the use of this model? Discuss the role of the ethics committee in this particular ethical dilemma.

Unit 2 Group Assignment — Not Graded

MN506: Contract for Group Project, Unit 2 Assignment — not graded

Work on the “Contract for Group Project” template with your team.

Kaplan MN506 Unit 3 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: Application of Standards of Care

Your instructor has placed you in groups and assigned a case study for the Unit 7 group Project.

Look at the legal malpractice case study that has been assigned to your group. Describe the case and discuss the standard of care that the parties will be held to in this case. How will the standards of care and the Nurse Practice Act be applied in a court of law if the case is sued?

Peer review at least two colleagues’ posts and try to review students that do not have feedback. Use Chapter 16, Effective Peer Reviews, in the Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing Handbook as a guide to review.

Review pages 213–219 of Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing.

Topic responses

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Topic 2: Clinical Criteria for Determining Danger to Self
A 45-year-old wife of one of the staff physicians was admitted to the emergency room. She is intoxicated and loud. Her husband wants her admitted to the psychiatric unit. He has asked to have two other physicians that are his friends to sign the paper work to admit her. In New York State where the hospital is located two physicians can admit a patient against their will if they are a danger to themselves or others. You happen to be a neighbor and know that the couple is going through a divorce and the husband wants custody of the two children. You also know he is dating a nurse on another unit. Differentiate between the ethical and legal implications of her admission. What actions will you take? Support your decisions with legal reasoning and case law.

Kaplan MN506 Unit 4 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: The Legal Implications of Acceptance or Refusal of an Assignment
After reviewing the ANA position statement on “Rights of Registered Nurses when Considering a Patient Assignment,”discuss the legal and ethical implications of accepting assignments. When delegating assignments to unlicensed personnel, what considerations need to be considered? What insurance issues come into play? Analyze the legal principle of Respondeat Superior.

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Topic 2: Defenses to Malpractice and Risk Management
Take the malpractice case assigned to your group and discuss the defenses that may be raised in that case. Discuss how the incident could have been prevented. What risk management techniques could have been used before and after the adverse patient occurrence? Respond to the other case scenario.

Kaplan MN506 Unit 5 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: Documentation and Regulatory Compliance
Based on the information you have learned in the course so far and the readings, analyze the advantages and disadvantages of charting by exception when faced with a malpractice lawsuit. Discuss how you would correct mistakes in a medical chart and the formatting of your documentation when witnessing an adverse patient occurrence (APO). What APOs have to be reported in your state? How would charting corrections be perceived in a court of law? What are the implications for handling of forensic issues?

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Topic 2: Impaired Nurses
Assume that you have knowledge that the nurse working with you on your unit has been illegally using drugs. What are your obligations to disclose this? What are your obligations to the institution you work for? Are there any places you could refer the nurse to? What are the implications for this nurse’s license? Are there any potential risks to your license? If so, what?

Kaplan MN506 Unit 6 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: Legal issues of an Advanced Practice Nurse in the Workplace
Choose one topic from the following list and evaluate how the chosen topic impacts your role as an advanced practice nurse. What are the legal implications related to your practice. These topics are discussed in this week’s chapter readings from the book. Analyze how understanding of the chosen topic will impact your future practice.

Choose one:

Employer and employee rights

American with Disabilities Act

Employment contracts and unionization

Corporate liability

Sexual harassment in the workplace

Employees with AIDS/HIV and exposure to blood borne pathogens

Environmental health and safety

Reply and comment on at least two of your peers that have chosen a different topic than you have chosen.

Please carefully review the Discussion Board grading rubric in the grading rubrics section of the course home.

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Topic 2: Post your draft paper for peer reviewYour instructor has placed you in groups and assigned a case study for the Unit 7 group project.

Post the draft of your unit 7 paper in the discussion area for your peers to critique. Your team leader will post the draft but the leader and each member must critique or reply three time in the discussion area to get credit. Your peer review must be substantive and not simply “good paper”. You must look at the APA formating and the grading rubric and base your comments on if the paper meets these guidelines and address the assignment directions.

Peer review at least three colleagues’ posts and try to review students that do not have feedback. Use Chapter 16, Effective Peer Reviews, in the Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing Handbook as a guide to review.

Academic Support Center?Writing Center?Writing Reference Library?Look for the Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing highlighted in an orange banner?Section 4: Peer Reviews, Chapter 16, pages 213-219.

Kaplan MN506 Unit 7 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: Policy and Politics
Read the case studies in Chapter 3 of Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals. Examine what Margaret Sanger, The Arkansas State Legislature, and others have done to make changes to health care policy. Outline the process that these pioneers took to effect change. Describe how policy change moves from internal adoption to legislation. Discuss expertise and internal and external advocacy. Give an example of a policy change you would advocate for.

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Topic 2: Nursing Strong Throughout Time
Compare and contrast three nursing advocates that have brought about change to public policy. What changes need to be made in the future to be successful as a profession of nursing advocates for healthcare policy reform?

Kaplan MN506 Unit 8 Discussion 1 Latest 2017 February
Topic 1: The Affordable Care Act
Describe the features of the Affordable Care Act and explain how it will control costs and improve quality of care from the perspective of a cultural, economic, and ethnically diverse society. What are the limits of the Act? As an advanced practice nurse, what policy changes would you recommend to provide health coverage to those who remain uninsured? What effects does this act have on providers and consumers?

Kaplan MN506 Unit 9 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: The Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse in a Changing Health Care Environment
Analyze the role of the advanced practice nurse in the changing health care environment. How will this role augment physicians’ practice? What implications will the Affordable Care Act have on this new delivery system?

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Topic 2: WebQuest Critique
Submit the work you have done on your WebQuest for others to critique. Give substantial peer review using the template provided to two of your fellow classmates that do not have feedback. Do not attach the template, but copy it into the Discussion Board.

Kaplan MN506 Unit 10 Discussion 1 Latest 2017 February
Topic 1: Global Nursing Shortage
Evaluate the effects of the global nursing shortage on health policy. How has the shortage affected the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals? Analyze how nursing ideas, values, and beliefs impact policy agenda. Identify when policy can dictate treatment options.

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