Benchmark – Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal

Professional capstone and practicum reflective journal

Students maintained and submitted weekly reflective narratives throughout the course to explore the personal knowledge and skills gained throughout this course. This assignment combines those entries into one course-long reflective journal that integrates leadership and inquiry into current practice as it applies to the Professional Capstone and Practicum course.
This final submission should also outline what students have discovered about their professional practice, personal strengths and weaknesses that surfaced during the process, additional resources and abilities that could be introduced to a given situation to influence optimal outcomes, and, finally, how the student met the competencies aligned to this course.

The final journal should address a variable combination of the following, while incorporating your specific clinical practice experiences:
New practice approaches
Interprofessional collaboration
Health care delivery and clinical systems
Ethical considerations in health care
Practices of culturally sensitive care
Ensuring the integrity of human dignity in the care of all patients
Population health concerns
The role of technology in improving health care outcomes
Health policy
Leadership and economic models
Health disparities
While APA style is not required for the body of this assignment, solid academic writing is expected, and in-text citations and references should be presented using APA documentation guidelines, which can be found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center.
This assignment uses a rubric. Please review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the expectations for successful completion.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical Support articles for assistance.
Benchmark Information
This benchmark assignment assesses the following programmatic competencies:
RN to BSN
2.3: Understand and value the processes of critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and decision making.
4.1: Utilize patient care technology and information management systems.
4.3: Promote interprofessional collaborative communication with health care teams to provide safe and effective care.
5.3: Provide culturally sensitive care.
5.4: Preserve the integrity and human dignity in the care of all patients.
RUBRIC
Attempt Start Date: 28-Sep-2020 at 12:00:00 AM

Due Date: 04-Oct-2020 at 11:59:59 PM
Maximum Points: 95.0Professional capstone and practicum reflective journal

 

 

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Ethical considerations in health care

Introduction

What is ethical?

Ethical considerations are important in health care because they impact how much power people have over their own bodies and how much value they place on their own lives. In this article, we’ll explore some of the key questions that arise when discussing ethical issues in health care; we’ll also talk about possible solutions to these problems. So sit back and get your thinking cap on!

Ethics is a branch of philosophy that revolves around questions about morality.

Ethics is a branch of philosophy that revolves around questions about morality. As the name implies, it’s concerned with what is right and wrong. It’s not a science—it’s more like an approach to thinking about problems and making decisions based on your personal standards for ethics.

Ethics deals with questions like: Should I smoke cigarettes? Do I have to take medicine when my doctor prescribes it? Is it ethical to kill animals for food? Ethical questions can be difficult because there are no simple answers; each situation requires careful consideration before you can decide whether or not something is morally acceptable (or not).

Questions about ethics are often used to decide the actions of people, businesses, governments and other organizations.

Ethics is a branch of philosophy that studies moral questions and their related issues. It can be difficult to get a clear understanding of ethics because it involves so many different types of situations and people.

Ethical considerations are important for everyone involved in health care, including doctors, nurses and patients. For example:

• Doctors should always put the welfare of their patients first – even if this means saving someone’s life at any cost?

• Nurses must always follow safe work practices when caring for patients (e.g., hand hygiene).

In general, ethics in health care involves questions about patient rights, medical privacy and physician duties.

In general, ethics in health care involves questions about patient rights, medical privacy and physician duties. Your doctor has a duty to provide you with the best possible care. A patient has a right to receive information about their condition and treatment options so they can make an informed decision about what’s best for them.

As a patient or client of a health care provider (HCP), you have certain rights that may not be granted by law or regulation but are protected by ethical codes of conduct. These include:

• The right to refuse medical treatment without fear of retribution against yourself or your family members; this is known as “do-not-resuscitate” (DNR). Some states also allow patients who have suffered organ damage from HIV/AIDS access DNR orders when appropriate under certain conditions such as severe dementia or advanced cancer disease without being required first seek approval from their HCPs first.”

Health care providers have a duty to ensure that they respect the wishes of their patients, even if they disagree in particular situations.

Doctors have a duty to ensure that they respect the wishes of their patients, even if they disagree in particular situations.

If you are concerned about your health care provider’s decision-making process and reasoning, there are several steps you can take to ensure you receive an ethical treatment:

• Ask questions. Be prepared to discuss your concerns with the doctor or nurse who is caring for you; it is important that they know what matters most to you so that they can help make decisions based on these concerns.

• Communicate openly and honestly with other family members as well. If there are other people involved in making medical decisions (such as children), show them how much confidence in the medical team’s competence rubs off on everyone else when communicating with doctors and nurses at home visits or through regular checkups.* Be proactive rather than reactive! Don’t wait until after an error has been made before speaking up about it – speak up now before any damage takes place!

Ethics committees can be created in health care facilities to ensure that the rights of patients are protected during difficult decisions.

If you are a patient, the ethical considerations in health care may be hard to understand. You may not know what your rights are or how they can be protected. You might think that any decision made by your doctor is reasonable and good for you, but this isn’t always true.

You should make sure that all of the people who have a say in decisions about your health care are qualified and have no financial or personal interest in making those decisions. The committee should include experts from different backgrounds—for example, doctors and nurses (who have worked with patients), ethicists (who study ethical issues), legal experts (who understand laws regarding medical treatment) and journalists who report on health issues so everyone can learn more about them together.

All health care providers should maintain the privacy of their patients and share information only when necessary to protect the life or well-being of the patient.

Privacy is a right that patients have. Health care providers should respect this right, and they should not share information about their patients without permission. If you have any questions about whether or not it is okay to share patient information with other health care providers, ask your provider directly.

Health professionals should be aware of the ethical principles involved in sharing information with each other when caring for the same patient—this means that you can talk openly about what happened during your appointment so long as it doesn’t violate confidentiality (for example, if someone else needs stitches removed).

Health care providers have a duty to provide information about treatments to their patients that is accurate, unbiased and easily understood by them.

Providers have a duty to provide information about treatments to their patients that is accurate, unbiased and easily understood by them.

The first part of this principle asks providers to provide information about treatments in a way that is accurate and unbiased. They should not promote unproven or disproved methods as being better than other methods based on personal opinion or experience alone. In addition, they should present all available evidence regarding the risks and benefits of any given procedure before performing it on patients; otherwise they might be accused of practicing quackery (the practice of using medical mumbo-jumbo).

The second part asks providers to provide easy access for patients who may not speak English well enough yet still want access to quality healthcare services provided by trained professionals such as doctors/nurses etc., thus improving accessibility even further through translation services when necessary!

Ethical considerations can be complicated but are important for everyone involved in health care.

Ethical considerations can be complicated but are important for everyone involved in health care.

The key to understanding ethical issues is to simplify them as much as possible, so that you can understand what’s going on. Here are some key points:

• Ethical considerations protect patients and health care providers by ensuring that they receive appropriate care.

• Ethical issues arise when it becomes clear that one party has harmed another, or if a patient has been harmed by something done without their consent (such as surgery). A good example of this would be when you go into surgery and find out later that there was an error made during the operation—you should then notify your surgeon so they can fix the mistake. This protects both parties involved in this situation because if no one knows about it then neither party will receive proper treatment (or even worse).

Conclusion

We hope that this article has helped you understand the ethical considerations involved in health care. As we have seen, there are many different types of ethical dilemmas that can arise in health care settings, but sometimes it is necessary for providers to take a stand and act on behalf of their patients. In these situations, it’s important for them to make sure they’re following all relevant laws and regulations around patient privacy and confidentiality before sharing medical information with others outside their own practice. It’s also important not only follow accepted standards but also adhere to local policies set by governing bodies such as state boards or regulatory agencies like Medicare or Medicaid