Assignment: Legal Nursing Aspects
Assignment: Legal Nursing Aspects
Week 3 assignment
Summary: Your assignment is to write an APA formatted paper based on your readings and
literature searches exploring and answering a series of questions.
Nurses are at the forefront of patient care, and will participate fully in genetic-based and
genomic-based practice activities, such as collecting family history, obtaining informed
consent for genetic testing, and administering gene-based therapies. Nurses will have a critical
role advocating for, educating, counseling, and supporting patients and families who are
making gene-based healthcare decisions (Cassells, Jenkins, Lea, Calzone, & Johnson, 2003).
Nurses will need to be able to effectively translate genetic and genomic information to their
patients with an understanding of associated ethical issues. This new direction in healthcare
calls for nurses to integrate into their scope of practice the emerging field of genetics and
genomics. The increased availability of personal genetic information also challenges nurses to
understand the ethical issues associated with activities such as informed decision making,
informed consent and genetic testing, genetic and genomic research testing protection,
maintaining privacy and confidentiality of genetic information, preventing genetic
discrimination, and strengthening genetic and genomic care around the world (Lea, 2008).
Cassells, J.M., Jenkins, J., Lea D.H., Calzone K., & Johnson E., (2003). An ethical assessment framework for addressing global genetic issues
in clinical practice. Oncology Nursing Forum, 30(3), 383-90.
Lea, D., (2008) Genetic and genomic healthcare: Ethical issues of importance to nurses. OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 13(1).
Who you will
What you will write about
How you will
How you will evaluate
write for
write
and support
Primary
Topic: Genetic and Genomic
Format:Your paper
Support your statements
Audience:The
Healthcare: Ethical Issues of
will be written in
with specific references
primary audience is
Importance to Nurses
APA 6th edition
from the readings and any
the general nursing
format including a
outside sources that you
community
Within your paper, you will answer all
Title and Reference
have discovered.
including your
of the following questions using APA
page. No abstract is
peers and nursing
level 1 headings:
needed.
Write in your own words
leaders.
and paraphrase content
1. Explain how nurses can be familiar
Write your paper in
from other sources and
Tone:This
with the nature and sources of genetic
a Microsoft Word
cite according to APA
assignment is to be
information so that they can assure
document. Save it in
standards. You should
written in third
privacy and confidentiality for their
a location on your
refrain from using quotes
personas it
patients?
computer and with a
in any of your paper. It is
reflects your
name that follows
more important to present
professional insight
2. Describe how your ANA Code to
this format: Last
your ideas about the
and research
Ethics book defines Privacy?
name, First name,
subject matter through
findings.
NUR3826, Genetic
your analysis and
3. A woman who tests positive for
and Genomic
synthesis and
Secondary
hereditary breast/ovarian cancer
Healthcare.
paraphrasing what you
Audience:As your
informs you, her nurse, that she does
have selected from the
instructor, I will
not wish to share this information with
Organization:
literature to support or
read and evaluate
her sisters and her mother as she does
Include a
argue your ideas.
how effectively
not get along with them. The concern
substantive and
Excessive quoting will
you have addressed
for her sisters and mother is that each
comprehensive
lead to point deductions.
your primary
of them now has a 1 in 2 chance to
introduction and
audience.
carry the same breast/ovarian cancer
conclusion to your
References:Include a
gene mutation that confers a
paper. Use of Level
minimum of five (5)
significantly increased risk to develop
One APA Headings
scholarly references
breast/ovarian cancer. Defend how
are required.
including a minimum of
you, the nurse, can be guided by the
three (3) current (within
ANA Code of Ethics for Nurses to
Length:The Final
the last 5 years) nursing
seek help and counsel from
paper will consist of
journal articles. Use
experienced individuals of the Ethics
a 7-10-page paper,
proper APA paraphrasing,
Board within your institution.
not including the
in-text citations, and
title page or
corresponding reference
4. Do you, the nurse, have “the legal
reference page.
for all sources.
authority to breach the confidentiality
of the client-nurse relationship to
Submission:Under
Additional sources can be
disclose genetic information about one
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from the ANA Essential
individual to another individual”?
tab. Submit only as a
texts or the course
Microsoft Word
textbook. Professional
5. Propose how a solution for this
document.
websites can be included,
ethical dilemma that arises for nurses
but must be in proper
and other healthcare providers when a
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APA format. The use of
patient does not choose to share
paper will
web sites such as
genetic information with other family
automatically be
Wikipedia or a non-
members when it may be important to
submitted through
discipline supportive
their health.
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website are not allowed.
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6. Contrast respect for the patient’s
program.
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confidentiality, while on the other
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hand the duty to warn other family
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for professional nursing
members of their potential health
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journal articles. Sites such as
the OJIN Online Journal of
risks.
information under
Issues in Nursingare also
the Student
acceptable.
7. Explain the impact of genetic
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information. How does a person’s
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genetic information affect that
link within the
individual and society’s perception of
course.
that individual?
