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Patient Advocacy: A Closer Look

Diversity Nursing

Nurse advocates are tasked with helping patients understand and navigate their healthcare journey, including answering questions, explaining medical care, discussing and explaining billing or insurance, and other healthcare-related topics. Nurses are often the first and last contact for patients in the healthcare setting.

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ER Nurse Follows Protocol, Avoids Negligence Lawsuit

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In this case , adhering to employer policies protected an emergency room (ER) nurse and her employer from a possible judgment of professional negligence. A nurse assessed his injuries and treated abrasions on his right knee and lower left leg. For the purposes of this blog, I’ll explore the nurse defendant’s motion.

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The Nursing Code of Ethics: Everything You Need To Know

Nurse.com

In just 217 words, the American Nurses Association explains its guiding values for the profession, known as The Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements , a document that has existed for more over 70 years. Ten years later, the Code for Professional Nurses included 17 provisions, which was later edited to 10 in 1968.

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New DAISY Ethics Award Celebrates Nurses’ Integrity

Nurse.com

When you’re a nurse, every shift presents the possibility that an ethical dilemma will emerge. Now, there’s an award that acknowledges and celebrates nurses who demonstrate solid ethical practice. Now, there’s an award that acknowledges and celebrates nurses who demonstrate solid ethical practice. What’s in the code?

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

We also talk with Emily Largent, a bioethicist and former ICU nurse, who argues in a Hastings Center Report for an expanded vision of patient consent. Consent is often viewed as “all or nothing” for any specific decision. Emily: Looks like informed decision making around family involvement. Eric: Yeah.

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Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest by Physicians Creating the CDC Opioid Prescribing Guidelines: Bad Faith or Incompetence?

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WLF’s complaint compelled the CDC to re-open a second open comment period for the public, lasting 30 days in duration, rather than the two-day period for comment which CDC had originally presented via a September 2015 webinar (4, 35). Presented on February 10, 2022, for the Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care (Virtual Conference).

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

Alex: We are delighted to welcome to the GeriPal podcast, Susan Hickman, who is professor at the Indiana University schools of nursing and medicine, and is director of the IU Center for Aging Research at the Regenstrief Institute. I have done a lot of work on POLST and nursing homes and I’ve seen POLST forms. What is advanced?