Assignment: Negligence/malpractice DQ

Assignment: Negligence/malpractice DQ

https://americannursetoday.com/protecting-yourself-from-malpractice-claims/

http://www.nursingcenter.com/journalarticle?article_id=423284

1. In connection with the readings relating to negligence/malpractice answer the following:

a. What was the most important information you gained from these articles? b. What are the elements that must be present for there to be a valid claim of negligence?

Euthanasia/Assisted Suicide Readings

Read the story of Brittany Maynard found at:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/11/02/brittany-maynard-as-promised-ends-her-life-at-29/

Read “Legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide: the illusion of safeguards and controls” found at:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070710/

Review State-by-State Guide to Physician-Assisted Suicide found at:

http://euthanasia.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000132

2. In connection with the topics of Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, address the following:

a. What is the difference between Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide? b. Explore your thoughts and feelings on the legality of assisted suicide and euthanasia. Should Florida follow Oregon? c. What guidance on this topic is found in the ANA Code of Ethics (Hint: Interpretive Statement to Provision One)? d. What is ANA’s position on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as expressed in its Position Statement on the topic?

Read the article, “How We Die” found at:

http://tuftsjournal.tufts.edu/2010/03_2/features/03/ (Links to an external site.)

3. What actions could have been taken to prevent this situation from occurring? Describe how refusing treatment differs from euthanasia or assisted suicide.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.