Instructions: Scholarly Paper #1: Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing Leadership

Instructions:
Scholarly Paper #1: Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing Leadership about
Substance abuse by an employee
Assignment Instructions:
Select one of the issues listed and introduce the key features of the selected issue.
Identify the legal implications of each issue and the challenges nurse leaders face.
Also address the ethical perspective of the issue you choose.
Based on your review of the literature, supply examples and supporting references in discussing the issue you selected as it affects patient safety, patient outcomes, nurse safety, and organizational accountability.
Describe steps you would implement to prevent these legal vulnerabilities within your clinical environment.
All papers should be written using full APA style– in-text references and a final reference list. Papers are limited to a total of 5 pages (which include the title page, and full reference list). No less than 6 references are expected. All references must be from professional sources. The majority of all references must be primary source, research/data based (MSU library), original articles. Yoder-Wise course text, Chapter 3, must be included as one of the references in this assignment.
Scholarly Paper #1: Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing Leadership about Substance abuse by an employee
Rubric:
Introduce the key features of the selected issue.
Identify the legal implications of each issue and the challenges nurse leaders face.
Address the ethical perspective of the issue you choose. Based on your review of the literature, supply examples and supporting references.
Discuss the issue you selected as it affects patient safety.
Discuss the issue you selected as it affects patient outcomes.
Discuss the issue you selected as it affects nurse safety.
Discuss the issue you selected as it affects organizational accountability.
Describe steps you would implement to prevent these legal vulnerabilities within your clinical environment.
Correct APA style— in-text references and a final reference list. Papers are limited to a total of 5 pages (which include the title page, and full reference list)
Minimum of 6 references. All references must be from professional sources. The majority of all references must be primary source, research/data based (MSU library), original articles. Yoder-Wise course text, Chapter 3, must be included as one of the references in this assignment.