The practice of health care providers at all levels brings you into contact with people from a variety of faiths. This calls for knowledge and acceptance of a diversity of faith expressions.

The purpose of this paper is to complete a comparative ethical analysis of George’s situation and decision from the perspective of two worldviews or religions: Christianity and a second religion of your choosing. For the second faith, choose a faith that is unfamiliar to you. Examples of faiths to choose from include Sikh, Baha’i, Buddhism, Shintoism, etc.

In your comparative analysis, address all of the worldview questions in detail for Christianity and your selected faith. Refer to Chapter 2 of Called to Care for the list of questions. Once you have outlined the worldview of each religion, begin your ethical analysis from each perspective.

In a minimum of 1,500-2,000 words, provide an ethical analysis based upon the different belief systems, reinforcing major themes with insights gained from your research, and answering the following questions based on the research:

1. How would each religion interpret the nature of George’s malady and suffering? Is there a “why” to his disease and suffering? (i.e., is there a reason for why George is ill, beyond the reality of physical malady?)
2. In George’s analysis of his own life, how would each religion think about the value of his life as a person, and value of his life with ALS?
3. What sorts of values and considerations would each religion focus on in deliberating about whether or not George should opt for euthanasia?
4. Given the above, what options would be morally justified under each religion for George and why?
5. Finally, present and defend your own view.

Support your position by referencing at least three academic resources (preferably from the GCU Library) in addition to the course readings, lectures, the Bible, and the textbooks for each religion. Each religion must have a primary source included. A total of six references are required according to the specifications listed above. Incorporate the research into your writing in an appropriate, scholarly manner.

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide

Read the two case summaries provided here. The case summaries are on page 2. Once you read the two case summaries, follow the instructions below.

Initial Post

Compare the appropriate nursing interventions by the nurse completed in Mississippi to the inappropriate nursing interventions by the nurse in the Texas case. Provide rationale supporting your comparison citing at least two scholarly sources.

Response Posts

• Explain why you agree or disagree with at least two other classmates’ responses
• Provide at least two examples and one credible resource to support each response

Comment 1

As a nurse preceptor for new grads coming on to the our unit I see the pressure there is to have all of this documentation and the amount of time away from the patient the nurse has to spend sitting down making sure the documention is intact. Now don’t get me wrong I know documentation is crucial but should it trump patient care.  There is a disconnect the amount of charting done and the time spent face to face with the patient, especially considering the aging population that have not grown up in front of an electronic devise. I feel the pressure myself when im taking care of my 5-6 patients and the amount of charting needing to be completed and then God forbid I have to stay over to complete my charting. As the journal International Journal of Nursing Practice states; The Complexities in nursing documentation include three aspects: disruption, incompleteness and inappropriate charting. Related factors that influenced documentation comprised: limited nurses’ competence, motivation and confidence; ineffective nursing procedures; and inadequate nursing audit, supervision and staff development. These findings suggest that complexities in nursing documentation require extensive resolution and implicitly dictate strategies for nurse managers and nurses to take part in solving these complicated obstacles.

there needs to be a middle ground and it should be lead by nurses that are currently performing bedside nursing, not the nurses that have been away from the floor and have lost touch with the work that is being done. 

Comment 2

Nursing is a constantly changing field. For as long as an individual is a nurse, they have an opportunity to learn. Patients’ needs change, and care delivery changes, resulting in a need for the nurse to understand, and adhere to these changes. Nursing research and evidence-based studies allows for nurses to thoroughly take a look at issues (or potential issues) in nursing, and find ways to fix them. One issue that has been ongoing in nursing from the beginning of time (probably since Florence nightingale years), until now is nursing staffing issues. Studies have shown that shortages in nursing staffing levels have contributed to poor patient care, and clinical errors. “The quality of care that nurses provide is influenced by individual nurse characteristics such as knowledge and experience, as well as human factors such as fatigue” (Clarke & Donaldson, 2008). In recent years, more studies have been done on understaffing nurses, and its effect on quality patient care. These studies have concluded that adequate nurse to patient ratios generally ensure that the patients receive better care. This finding is of no surprise considering, a nurse that is caring for an adequate amount of patients as more time to complete things that although may not be essential to their care, nonetheless will affect the quality of the care the patient receives. An example of this would be, a nurse that notices that her ICU patient still has residue on them from a motor vehicle accident, however that nurse may not be able to remove some of that dirt, and debris if he/she has two other very ill patients. On the other hand, that same nurse, that has only one patient would be able to give that same patient a bed bath, if he/she is her only patient. This small yet grand act of giving the patient a bed bath makes a lot of difference to the patient, and patient’s family.

Based on last week’s reading, you now have an idea of the role of the APRN, and legal/professional issues in prescribing. As a future nurse practitioner, you have the authority, based on your state nurse practice act, to prescribe medications for the patients for whom you will provide care, and the responsibility of prescriptive authority is more than just simply writing a prescription correctly.

Important Links:

https://www.flsenate.gov/Committees/BillSummaries/2016/html/1424

http://ojin.nursingworld.org/MainMenuCategories/ANAMarketplace/ANAPeriodicals/OJIN/TableofContents/Vol-19-2014/No2-May-2014/Barriers-to-NP-Practice.html

https://floridasnursing.gov/new-legislation-impacting-your-profession/

https://www.aanp.org/advocacy/advocacy-resource/position-statements/nurse-practitioner-prescriptive-privilege

Discuss the role of advanced practice nursing in safe prescribing and 3  prescribing barriers for APRNs.

1. You need 1 initial post, and 2 replies to 2 different students.

2. A minimum of 2 paragraphs is required for all posts (initials and replies).

3. Support all posts with at least 2 cited peer review references within 5 years of publication (references cannot be older than 5 years).

4. All posts are to be written in APA 6th edition format as required by the university.

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In quantitative research, we looked at the rate of falls numerically before and after the implementation of a program. In qualitative research, if you were interested in study the impact of falls on the patient’s quality of life, you could obtain this information through personal interviews. The unit of measurement would be the words that the patient uses, and a qualitative method would be used to analyze this data.

Give a different example of qualitative research design. How does qualitative research improve quality of care and health outcomes?