NURS6512N Advanced Health Assessment and Diagnostic Reasoning
Week 11 Assignment  1
 
AB ASSIGNMENT: ETHICAL CONCERNS
As an advanced practice nurse, 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?
 
In this Lab Assignment, you will explore evidence-based practice guidelines and ethical considerations for specific scenarios.
 
RESOURCES
 
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WEEKLY RESOURCES
 
TO PREPARE
 
Review the scenarios provided by your instructor for this week’s Assignment. Please see the “Course Announcements” section of the classroom for your scenarios.
 
Based on the scenarios provided:
 
Select one scenario, and reflect on the material presented throughout this course.
 
What necessary information would need to be obtained about the patient through health assessments and diagnostic tests?
 
Consider how you would respond as an advanced practice nurse. Review evidence-based practice guidelines and ethical considerations applicable to the scenarios you selected.
 
THE LAB ASSIGNMENT
 
Write a detailed one-page narrative (not a formal paper) explaining the health assessment information required for a diagnosis of your selected patient (include the scenario number). 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.
 
BY DAY 6 OF WEEK 11
 
Submit your Assignment.
 
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
 
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