Healthy Again Health Promotion Program Parts B

Healthy Again Health Promotion Program

Parts B & C -- Competency Statements and Relevant Objectives

Nurse professionals will endeavor to work as a team in collaborative relationships whenever possible.

Nurses understand and engage in effective communication

Work with team and colleagues to ensure a safe and effective medical environment

Authenticate relationships between colleagues, patients, and stakeholders through mutual respect and honesty

Engender and actively pursue a cycle of learning and improving self and through professional means, others

Create a culture of respect, advocacy, caring, and trust (American Nurses Association, 2013).

Nurses will adhere to the ANA Nursing Code of Ethics in all work situations, and will communicate to supervisor in the event of additional resources or interpretations (American Nurses Association, 2013).

a. Understand and adhere to basic nursing ethical guidelines through advocacy, communication and deliberate leadership by example

b. Deliberately and regularly work to provide patient autonomy, beneficence, fidelity and justice

c. Ensure complete compliance with all HIPPA and other confidentiality legislation and procedures

d. Actively communicate use of ethics toolbox to stakeholders and colleagues

e. Understand individual organization's interpretation and implementation of medical and nursing ethics (American Nurses Association, 2013; Burkhard, et al., 2007).

3. Nurse professionals will, at all times, comply with Federal or State legislation affecting nursing practice and/or health care.

a. Ability to identify and describe nursing practice within the framework of the law

b. Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the implications of the law in patient care

c. Identify and correct any unprofessional practice in self or team

d. Demonstrate awareness, understanding and compliance with legal requirements for medications

e. Ability to identify and explain new legislation as it relates to nursing practice and, when appropriate, advocate appropriate position (American Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2013).

4. Nursing professionals will fulfill the duties of compassionate care as outlined in the principles of ANMC Competency Standards and their particular organization

a. Uses clinical knowledge to provide the best patient care possible.

b. Advocates for patient and family when necessary

c. Uses nursing ethics to understand and develop competency of care philosophy

d. Uses Nursing Best Practice in patient care and intervention

e. Accurately clarifies and communicates responsibilities of individual care with team members (American Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2013).

Part D- Nursing Ethics Course Study

1. Course of study designed to use GEM model to first understand, engage, then simulate competency in using medical ethics within the contemporary health care environment

Specific concepts to be learned in this module:

a. Utilitarianism and deontology as trends in medical ethics

b. Autonomy as a philosophy that allows rational individuals to make decisions regarding their healthcare

c. Justice to focus on equity and fairness when allocating resources

d. Fidelity and honesty between medical professional and patient

e. Beneficence as the core of the Hippocratic oath (Tschudin, 2003).

2. Case study: Read and analyze the Teri Schiavo case and write an essay defending one of the points-of-view (husband, parents, government, hospital) based on medical ethics in the contemporary world. How does this fit with aging patients?

3. Activities:

a. Apply textual readings to case studies on euthanasia, medication or procedures for gerentological patients, etc.

b. Find a contemporary situation within one's own organization that has at least one of the ethical components of autonomy, justice, fidelity and beneficence and analyze based on utilitarianism or deontology