Exam 3: Legal and Ethical Issues

A patient refuses a simple procedure that you believe is in the patient's best interest.What two ethical principles are in conflict in this situation?

In a telehealth organization,a nurse who is licensed in New York and Pennsylvania provides teaching to a patient who resides in Pennsylvania.The patient charges that the teaching failed to provide significant information about a potential side effect,which led to delay in seeking treatment and untoward harm.Under which state nurse practice act and standards would this situation be considered?

A staff nurse in the area that you manage has excelled in the delivery of patient education.You are considering implementing a new job description that would broaden her opportunity to teach patients and orient new staff members to the value of patient education.What ethical principle is being reinforced?

While walking past a patient's room,you overhear one of the RN staff telling a patient that the patient has no right to refuse chemotherapy treatment because the family and the doctor think the treatment is the best option for the patient.This patient is 40 years of age and alert.When you meet later to discuss what you heard with the RN,it is important to:

An individual in a wheelchair is applying for the position of receptionist in an outpatient clinic.What does the nurse manager understand based on The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 requirements for employers?