Ethics: Advanced Ethical Practice

By the end of this lesson you will be able to: - Name the seven values of the current national nursing Code of Ethics and use them to justify a bedside decision. - Separate three layers of authority in every ethical problem: national professional ethics, provincial or territorial law and regulator standards, and federal law. - Apply the elements of valid consent, test capacity on understanding rather than on the decision made, and identify the right substitute decision-maker when capacity is absent. - Respond to a refusal of treatment, an emergency without consent, and a prior capable refusal. - Explain where confidentiality ends and what a nurse in British Columbia must report about a child or an abused adult. - Describe the federal medical assistance in dying (MAID) criteria and safeguards, the registered nurse's role in British Columbia, and how conscientious objection is handled without abandoning the client. - Recognize moral distress, act with moral courage, and use ethics consultation, advocacy and escalation through the chain of command. - Work through a stepwise ethical decision framework on three realistic scenarios,...