Nursing law
Nursing law: Resources: University Library; Grading Criteria: Legal Considerations Presentation
Prepare a 10 slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation with detailed speaker notes that discusses a current legal issue, from the news media or your own professional practice, affecting an individual or group of nurses. For confidentiality reasons, do not use real names from your own practice. Examples of legal issues include the following:
“Angel of Mercy” cases, such as nurses during the Hurricane Katrina evacuation giving overdoses of morphine and other medications to patients to end their lives.
Include the following in your presentation:
Introduction
Judicial process and health care laws
Professional standards of practice
Malpractice and disciplinary action issues
Ethical issues
Issues surrounding appropriate documentation
Nursing practice act requirements
Conclusion
At least three references from scholarly journals in the University Library
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Euthanasia is one of the issues affecting nursing profession today. Euthanasia become one of the most heated arguments in the nursing profession after the “angel of mercy” cases. Nurses during the Hurricane Katrina evacuations had to perform a number of euthanasia through overdoses of morphine and other medications to patients to end their lives. This brought many legal concerns since the role of nurses in Euthanasia has not been effectively documented……………………………
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