Discuss an ethical or legal issue you have encountered during the practicum experience and/or professional practice. Consider the ethical principles that were evident in the situation and how these principles were adhered to or violated. What did you learn from this experience and how will it impact your practice?

Discuss an ethical or legal issue you have encountered during the practicum experience and/or professional practice. Consider the ethical principles that were evident in the situation and how these principles were adhered to or violated. What did you learn from this experience and how will it impact your practice?

Discuss an ethical or legal issue you have encountered during the practicum experience and/or professional practice. Consider the ethical principles that were evident in the situation and how these principles were adhered to or violated. What did you learn from this experience and how will it impact your practice?

Reflective Journal

Advanced education nursing students and nurse practitioners encounter a host of legal and ethical issues during their practicum experience or professional practice (Luyckx, 2021). One ethical challenge that I encountered in my practicum was dealing with patient autonomy in the emergency room (ER) where as a provider I am expected to give care to stabilize the patient before making any other decisions and interventions. Patients presenting in the emergency room are mainly in critical condition and there is little room for negotiation before stabilizing them. However, a situation that occurred entailed the patient’s relative demanding that I ask if she wanted treatment yet they had brought her because of her increased blood pressure levels.

BUY A CUSTOM- PAPER HERE ON;Discuss an ethical or legal issue you have encountered during the practicum experience and/or professional practice. Consider the ethical principles that were evident in the situation and how these principles were adhered to or violated. What did you learn from this experience and how will it impact your practice? 

The ethical principles in this situation were autonomy and beneficence. The core calling of a healthcare provider is to offer care that benefits a patient and in their best interest (Beauchamp & Childress, 2019). However, such can only happen when the patient is ready and consents to treatment interventions. These principles are essential as it implies that a provider can only offer treatment that confers benefits to patients based on their interests, preferences and with explicit consent founded on the principle of autonomy (Luyckx, 2021). Imperatively, I had to adhere to these principles as any violation would have led to possible suits and legal action.

I learned from this experience that as providers, the principle of autonomy may trump on others because of the legal provisions and the increased level of freedoms that patients enjoy in society. This impacts my practice as it informs me to be more vigilant and involve patients in care decisions irrespective of their health or medical status when they present to the facility, especially in the ER.

References

Beauchamp, T., & Childress, J. (2019). Principles of biomedical ethics: marking its fortieth

            anniversary. The American Journal of Bioethics, 19(11), 9-12.

DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2019.1665402.

Luyckx, V. A. (2021, May). Introduction: ethical issues in nephrology. In Seminars in

            Nephrology (Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 201-202). Elsevier.

Arrange this activity at your preferred location in which you observe, participate and or interact with the Mentor related to a nursing ethical or legal dilemma. Use the experience to complete the Journal Entry Assignment below that is due in Week Three.

Reflective Journal Entry

1. Discuss an ethical or legal issue you have encountered during the practicum experience and/or professional practice.

2. Consider the ethical principles that were evident in the situation and how these principles were adhered to or violated.

3. What did you learn from this experience and how will it impact your practice?

GRADE RUBRIC FOR  JOURNAL ENTRY ASSIGNMENT

GRADING CRITERIA	EXCELLENT	ACCEPTABLE	MINIMAL	UNACCEPTABLE	COMMENTS
Content	Response to assigned topic thorough and well written, with varied sentence structure and vocabulary; opinions always supported with facts. 3 POINTS	Response thoughtful and fairly well written; most opinions supported with facts.       2 POINTS	Response adequately addresses some aspects of the assigned topic; opinions sometimes based on incorrect information.   1 POINT	Response consists of unsupported opinions only marginally related to the topic.       0.5 POINTS
Idea Development	Excellent use of examples and details to explore and develop ideas and opinions.   3 POINTS	Good reliance upon examples and details to illustrate and develop ideas and opinions.   2 POINTS	Incomplete development of ideas; details and examples not always evident.   1 POINT	Ideas not clearly stated or developed.       0.5 POINTS
Organization	Very logically organized; contains introduction; development of main idea (or ideas), and conclusion.   2 POINTS	Contains introduction, some development of ideas, and conclusion.     1 POINT	Topics and ideas discussed are random, entry lacks clearly defined introduction or conclusion.   0.5 POINTS	Entry is unstructured.           0 POINTS
Mechanics	Flawless spelling and punctuation. Flawless use of APA format. 2 POINTS	Few or no Spelling, APA errors; some minor punctuation mistakes. 1 POINT	Several APA, spelling,   punctuation   errors.   0.5 POINTS	Many instances of incorrect APA,  spelling and/or   punctuation. 0 POINTS	TOTAL POINTS