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Legal Issues of an Advanced Practice Nurse in the Workplace
Choose one topic from the following list and evaluate how the chosen topic impacts your role as an advanced practice nurse. What are the legal implications related to your role? Analyze how understanding of the chosen topic will impact your future role as an advanced practice nurse.
Choose one:
Employer and employee rights
American with Disabilities Act
Employment contracts and unionization
Corporate liability
Sexual harassment in the workplace
Employees with AIDS/HIV and exposure to bloodborne pathogens
Environmental health and safety
Impaired Nurses
Assume that you have knowledge that the nurse working with you on your unit has been illegally using drugs. Discuss your professional obligations and institutional obligations to disclose this. Discuss the referral sources for impaired nurses in your state. Analyze the impact of this issue on your advanced practice role as a nurse practitioner/administrator/educator.
ANA Regulations -The Legal Implications of Acceptance or Refusal of an Assignment
After reviewing the ANA position statement on “Rights of Registered Nurses when Considering a Patient Assignment,” discuss the legal and ethical implications of accepting assignments. When delegating assignments to unlicensed personnel, what considerations need to be considered? What insurance issues come into play? Analyze the legal principle of Respondeat Superior.