Blood Transfusion Ethics

Patients who refuse blood

The goal of this program is to update nurses’ ability to care for patients who refuse blood or blood products during health care. After you study the information presented here, you will be able to —
Describe transfusion-free care and the patients who desire it.
List common modalities used in bloodless care.
Explain the role of advance directives in bloodless care.
Review of some Med-surg
Throbolytics- streptokinase, urokinase, TPA
Erythropoietin-Procrit-hematocrit values for men and women, anemias
Radionuclides- use for radioopaque diagnostic procedures. ex barium enema or swallow
Immunoglobulins. IgE
Rh factors
Horse serum
Fibrinogen pluc Ca yields fibrin and clot formation

Organ Donation Ethics

The goal of this program is to provide information about current organ donation issues. After studying the presented information, you will be able to —
Describe the gap between the number of organs donated and the number of people waiting for transplants.
Explain process of deciding to donate and reasons why some people choose not to donate.
Describe recommendations to follow when approaching families of brain-dead or donation-after-cardiac-death patients for organ donation.

HIPPA and privacy

The purpose of this program is to provide nurses with information about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), especially as it relates to protected health information.

After studying the information presented here, you will be able to:
Describe the intent of HIPAA
Implement professional practices that protect patients’ privacy
Incorporate practices that protect security of electronic protected health information

Fraud

The goal of this program is to enhance nurses’ ability to recognize, avoid, and control healthcare fraud. After studying the information presented, you will be able to —
Describe healthcare fraud and the problems identified with fraud control.
Identify the key federal laws governing healthcare fraud.
Describe the nurse’s role in recognizing, avoiding, and controlling healthcare fraud.

Ethics Orientation

The purpose of this course is to inform nurses about the field of bioethics. It will also provide readers with a greater understanding of how ethics functions within nursing, as well as within the larger field of health care, so they may participate in it more knowledgeably and effectively.
After studying the information presented here, you will be able to —
Discuss the historical events that led to the development of bioethics.
Describe four major bioethical principles.
Name three ethics functions within nursing.
Identify three functions of a typical ethics committee.
Describe three factors that must be present for a patient’s informed decision.
State the “slippery-slope” argument as it relates to physician-assisted suicide.

Charting Ethics Legal Issues

The purpose of this article is to provide nurses with information about the value of legally credible documentation, laws and standards governing nursing documentation, legal basics for appropriate documentation and strategies for documenting changes in a patient’s condition.
When you complete this article, you will be able to:
1. Provide the legal definition of nursing negligence.
2. Describe the four attributes of legally credible charting.
3. Describe two charting practices that can lead to legal problems.

Clinical Trials

The purpose of this program is to provide nurses with information about how clinical trials are conducted, advantages and disadvantages of participation, and ways in which participants’ rights are protected. After studying the information presented here, you will be able to —
Identify four phases of clinical trials.
State three advantages and three disadvantages of participating in a clinical trial.
Discuss how the rights of participants are protected during a clinical trial.

Advance Directives

1. Explain the intent of the Patient Self-Determination Act
2. Describe barriers that patients, families, and health care professionals have in implementing advance directives
3. Discuss actions nurses can take to promote patient self-determination with advanced care planning

Ethics LPN Senior Year

Course description
This course is designed to aid student nurses in their decision-making process as it relates to healthcare decisions and conduct in the clinical setting. Ethical, moral, and legal issues are the subject matter to be discussed

Course Description
Identify legal and ethical issues foe the nurse
Assess their bias
Utilize nursing process
Discuss and identify major philosphies of ethics

Rubric
Final exam 30%
Unit Tests 40%
Project/Participation 20%
Homework 10%