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Case Study Ethical Legal Dilemma Advanced Practice Nursing

Description: In Unit 2 Topic 2 Discussion you will choose an ethical-legal dilemma that would cause the advanced practice nurse moral distress. You will write the introductory paragraph for the Unit 5 Assignment in the Unit 2 Topic 2 Discussion area and post it for your peers to comment on.

You will continue working on the topic you have chosen and submit the paper using the most recent version of APA format. The paper should have a minimum of 7 citations and some of these should be case law or applicable statutes. The Kaplan Library has Westlaw Campus Research database where you can find case law that relates to your topic. The APA Manual and the textbook have instructions on legal formatting.

Directions:

1. Create an ethical legal decision-making dilemma involving an advanced practice nurse in the field of education, informatics, administration, or a nurse practitioner.

2. Include one ethical principle and one law that could be violated and whether the violation would constitute a civil or criminal act based on facts in the law.

3. Construct a decision that would prevent violation of the ethical principle and prevent the law from being violated.

4. Describe the legal principles and laws that apply to the ethical dilemma.

5. Support the legal issues with prior legal cases or state or federal statutes.

6. Analyze the differences between ethical and legal reasoning and apply an ethical-legal reasoning model in the case study to create a basis for a solution to the ethical-legal dilemma.

7. List three recommendations that will resolve advanced practice nurses moral distress in the dilemma you have presented.

8. Based on the issue you presented, the rules of law apply the laws to you case and come up with a conclusion.