Assignment: Nursing Leadership and Management
Legal and Ethical Issues of Advanced Practice Nursing-Practice Experience
Case Study: Ethical Obligations of the RN-Ethics Committee Report
Facts: Mr. Freily suffered head injuries from a fight in a barroom approximately one year ago. This wasn't his first fight; in fact, his parents are not comfortable with him going to bars, although he is 38, because he is "developmentally delayed." His nurse, T. Mack, RN, notices on his chart that he has a "bruised" frontal lobe of his brain and the neurosurgeon in charge of this case performed a prefrontal lobotomy. In her 20 years as a neurosurgery ICU nurse, she has never seen this type of a procedure done for a "bruised" brain.
The chair of the hospital ethics committee has asked you to review the above case and to synthesize a 2 pages formal report regarding the following:
i. Analyze Nurse Mack's ethical obligations in this situation
ii. What next steps should Nurse Mack take?
iii. State the Code of Ethics provisions in defense of the proposed next steps.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
i) The answer should be typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, with one-inch margins on all sides.
ii) The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
iii) Also include a reference page. The Citations and references must follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.