Determine whether the law and the ANA’s standards support or conflict with that action.

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Read the following scenario:

Lena is a community health care nurse who works exclusively with HIV-positive and AIDS patients. As a part of her job, she evaluates new cases and reviews confidential information about these patients. In the course of one of these reviews, Lena learns that her sister’s boyfriend has tested HIV positive. Lena would like to protect her sister from harm and begins to consider how her sister can find out about her boyfriend’s health status.

  • Consult at least two resources to help you establish Lena’s legal and ethical position. These resources might include your state’s Nurse Practice Act, the ANA’s Code of Ethics, ANA’s Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice, and internal or external standards of care.
  • Consider what action you would take if you were Lena and why.
  • Determine whether the law and the ANA’s standards support or conflict with that action.

Question; Description of the actions you would take in this situation, and why. Justify these actions by referencing appropriate laws, ethical standards, and professional guidelines.

Analyze the moral, ethical, and legal implications utilized in this situation. Describe your role as a moral agent or advocate for this specific issue.

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Write a 4 to 5 page paper (page count does not include title and reference page) that addresses the following:

  • Introduce the conceptual frameworks of the ethical constructs of ethics, moral, or legal standards and the purpose of the paper.
  • Consider  an ethical, moral, or legal dilemma that you have encountered in your work environment and describe it.
  • Analyze the moral, ethical, and legal implications utilized in this situation. Describe your role as a moral agent or advocate for this specific issue.
  • Consider your leadership styles identified by your self-assessment and determine if they act as a barrier or facilitation during this dilemma.
    • Consider the examples of leadership demonstrated in this week’s media presentation and the other Learning Resources.
    • To further your self-knowledge, you are required to complete the Kiersey Temperament as indicated in this week’s Learning Resources. Consider your leadership style, including your strengths for leading others and include your results from Kiersey Temperament Sorter to describe potential challenges related to your leadership style.
    • Mentally survey your work environment, or one with which you are familiar, and identify a timely issue/dilemma that requires you to perform the leadership role of moral agent or advocate to improve a situation (e.g., speaking or acting on behalf of a vulnerable patient, the need for appropriate staffing, a colleague being treated unfairly).
    • What ethical, moral, or legal skills, dispositions, and/or strategies would help you resolve this dilemma? Define the differences between ethical,moral, andlegal leadership.
    • Finally, consider the values and principles that guide the nursing profession; the organization’s mission, vision, and values; the leadership and management competencies addressed in this course; and your own values and reasons for entering the profession. What motivation do you see for taking a stand on an important issue even when it is difficult to do so?To prepare:

Identify three culturally sensitive nursing diagnoses from your client’s cultural perspective.

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  1. Research and select a culture of interest to you.
  2. Following approval by your faculty, write a5-page scholarly paper on the approved culture.
  3. The paper must be typed in APA format and submitted via Turnitin by the due date. Seek assistance in the Coppin University Academic Resource Center for help with grammar, sentence structure, or American Psychological Association (APA) style formatting.
  1. Submit a 5-page scholarly paper (not included reference or cover page) written in APA style, with the use of references when appropriate. (10 points).
  1. Content should consist of the following topics: (45 points)
  • Family and community structure and hierarchies.
  • Attitudes and beliefs about pregnancy and childrearing.
  • Attitudes and beliefs about death and dying
  • Attitudes and beliefs about health/wellness & illness (prevention, management, and hospitalization)
  • Attitudes and beliefs about mental illness.
  • Dietary & nutrition practices
  • Care of the elderly.
  • Social practices.
  • What are typical patterns of communication?  Include both verbal and nonverbal communications.
  1. Using the Nursing Process, discuss the care you will provide in regards to collecting data, diagnosing the problem, and planning for care. Be culturally appropriate (45 points).
  2. Individualize your assessment, diagnosis, and plan for each of the following situations:
  3. An extended family living arrangement for the 81 year-old grandmother who just suffered a Cerebral Vascular Accident (stroke) with severe hemiparesis.
  4. A new immigrant couple whose first child born at 28 weeks gestation.
  5. A nuclear family with teenage children. The father recently diagnosed with diabetes.
  6. How should questions for you assessment be directed for your cultural group?
  7. Identify three culturally sensitive nursing diagnoses from your client’s cultural perspective.
  8. How should you plan to provide care for your cultural group?
  1. How should care be provided for your cultural group?

Identify a health care need that would benefit from political advocacy by nurses.

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Question 1

  • Identify a health care need that would benefit from political advocacy by nurses.
  • Describe how nursing could influence legislation in this area.

Question 2

In the media, there has been much debate about the effectiveness and affordability of the ACA. Let’s consider how this legislation will influence your nursing practice and work environment.

  • Summarize the key components of the ACA. (Affordable Care Act)
  • Describe how you have observed this policy influencing health care and nursing practice in your organization