Assignment:
CASE STUDY A 49-year-old woman with advanced stage cancer has been admitted to the emergency room with cardiac arrest. Her husband and one of her children accompanied the ambulance.
1. In this assignment 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?
2. You will explore evidence-based practice guidelines and ethical considerations for specific scenarios.
To Prepare
o What necessary information would need to be obtained about the patient through health assessments and diagnostic tests?
o Consider how you would respond. Review evidence-based practice guidelines and ethical considerations applicable to the scenarios you selected.
Write a detailed one-page narrative (not a formal paper) explaining the health assessment information required for a diagnosis of your selected patient i(nclude the scenario above) 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.