Assignment 1: Lab Assignment: Ethical Concerns Photo Credit: Getty Images/Maskot

Assignment 1: Lab
Assignment: Ethical Concerns
Photo Credit: Getty Images/Maskot
As an advanced practice nurse, you will
run into situations where a patient’s wishes about his or her health conflict
with evidence, your own experience, or a family’s wishes. This may create an
ethical dilemma. What do you do when these situations occur?
In this Lab Assignment, you will
explore evidence-based practice guidelines and ethical considerations for
specific scenarios.
To Prepare
Review the scenarios
provided by your instructor for this week’s Assignment. Please see the “Course
Announcements” section of the classroom for your scenarios.
Based on the scenarios
provided:
Select one scenario,
and reflect on the material presented throughout this course.
What necessary information
would need to be obtained about the patient through health assessments and
diagnostic tests?
Consider how you would
respond as an advanced practice nurse. Review evidence-based practice
guidelines and ethical considerations applicable to the scenarios you
selected.
The Lab Assignment
Write a detailed one-page
narrative (not a formal paper) explaining the health assessment information
required for a diagnosis of your selected patient (include the scenario
number). Explain how you would respond to the scenario as an advanced practice
nurse using evidence-based practice guidelines and applying ethical
considerations. Justify your response using at least three different references
from current evidence-based literature.