Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing Education (eBook)

An Essential Guide

RN PhD FAAN ANEF H. Michael Dreher, JD John Gyllenhammer, RN PhD ACNS-BC ANEF FAAN Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow, PhD Michael D. Dahnke (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
392 Seiten
Springer Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-0-8261-6193-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Understand the legal framework that provides the structure of Nursing!This is the only current text to critically examine the vast array of legal and ethical matters confronting nursing faculty in classroom and clinical settings. Designed to assist students preparing to be nurse educators, academic nursing administrators, and novice and seasoned faculty in making real-life decisions about academic issues within a legal and ethical framework. Replete with practical advice from experts in the fields of nursing, law, and ethics, this text guides the reader through legal and ethical principles, analyses of relevant case-based scenarios, and practical recommendations for handling problems in accordance with existing laws and institutional policy.Clearly and concisely written and organized, this text provides a comprehensive description of the legal process, including higher education law, the courts, case law, the role of a university attorney, and how to read and cite judicial decisions. Real-world case scenarios and detailed analyses of pertinent issues, including coverage of incivility, discrimination, harassment, academic dishonesty, and freedom of speech, are examined from the perspective of students, faculty, and administrators.Key Features:Written by a nursing dean, a former nursing dean, an ethicist, and a higher education attorneyAn entire section of legal and ethical cases, featuring a unique philosophical and ethical perspectiveDelivers best practices for nursing facultyProvides tips on when to consult the university attorney, critical elements to consider, actions to take when law and ethics conflict, helpful resources, and a glossary of legal termsAn Instructor's Manual and discussion questions facilitate teaching.

Inhalt

Preface

About the authors

Contributors

Note from Authors

Acknowledgements

Section I: Revisiting the Legal Process

1. An Introduction to the Legal Process: A Primer


2. Legal Issues Commonly Encountered by Faculty and Academic Administrators


3. How to Read a Judicial Decision


4. 4. The Role of the University Attorney: When the Academic Nursing Administrator Comes Calling

Section II: The Ethics Dimension of Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing Education

5. Basic Primer on Applied Ethics


6. The Ethics of Nursing Education

Section III: Legal and Ethical Cases with Nursing Students, Faculty, & Administrators   

Each of the following will be an individual case:

7. Neutrality, Confidentiality and Independence: The Role of the Ombudsman When a Student Files a Complaint


8. Neutrality, Confidentiality and Independence in the Role of the Ombudsman: When a Faculty Files a Complaint


9. Due Process Issues for the Student


10. A Critical Explanation of what ‘Academic Freedom’ really is and what it is not!


11. Intellectual Property: – When faculty members misrepresent a work-product as their own


12. The Tenure Process


13. Harassment


14. Managing Issues of Student Complaints of Discrimination


15. Academic Dishonesty Among Students


16. Academic Freedom Issues for the Student


17. Incivility: Faculty on Faculty and Academic Nursing Administrator on Faculty, Their Subordinates


18. Conflict of Interest in the Faculty Role


19. Disability Issues for the Student


20. When Academic Nursing Policies are Ignored, Not Enforced, or Overruled?


21. Individual Rights and Public Safety: Addressing Conduct and Mental Health Issues Among Students


22. Substance Misuse: Assessment and Confrontation in the Nursing Education


23. Medical Marijuana and Nursing Students: An Evolving Higher Education Quandary    

Section IV: Specific Clinical Education Issues

24. Clinical Probation and Failure


25. The Testing Environment


26. Changing the NCLEX-RN to the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model: Educational, Legal, and Ethical Implications


27. Creating a Safe and Ethical Nursing Education Environment

Section V: Specific Issues Confronting Adjunct Faculty in the Clinical Agency and Classroom

28. Confronting Adjunct Faculty Issues in the Classroom and Clinical Agency


29. Student-Faculty Professional Boundaries in the Academic and Clinical Environment


30. Addressing Students with Mental Health Issues or Psychiatric Disabilities


31. A Bad Action: Is it Ethical, Illegal, or Both?

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Medizinrecht
• ISBN-10: 0-8261-6193-6 / 0826161936
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-6193-2 / 9780826161932