HCS 478 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Legal Considerations Presentation | University Of Phoenix

HCS 478 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Legal Considerations Presentation | University Of Phoenix 

HCS 478 Week 5  Learning Team Assignment Legal Considerations Presentation

Prepare a 10- to 15-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
Administration of an inaccurate medication dosage, such as pediatric patients receiving heparin overdoses as with Dennis Quaid’s twins
Disclosure to tabloids of celebrities’ personal health information, such as the patients at Cedar Sinai.
Include the following in your presentation:
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
At least three peer reviewed references from scholarly journals in the University Library  

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