{"title":"Advanced practice registered nurse educational programs and regulation: a need for increased communication.","authors":"Nancy Chornick","doi":"10.1097/01.NHL.0000312545.31739.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NHL.0000312545.31739.23","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Communication is essential between nursing education program and regulation to ensure that graduates are prepared to meet licensure eligibility requirements. Not only should educational programs be aware of their own state requirements but they should also be knowledgeable of the variations of eligibility requirements among the states. Formal and informal meetings between educators and regulators are encouraged.</p>","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"10 1","pages":"9-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.NHL.0000312545.31739.23","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27362036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To hold her hand: family presence during patient resuscitation.","authors":"Denise A Atwood","doi":"10.1097/01.NHL.0000312549.46918.be","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NHL.0000312549.46918.be","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Family presence at the bedside during resuscitation is an important component of the patient's care. Many families report feeling that their presence at such a time is helpful to both them and the patient. Some studies suggest that family presence may reduce the chance of legal action regarding the patient's outcome because it decreases the mystery surrounding the level of effort undertaken to save the patient's life. However, many facilities are reluctant to allow family presence during resuscitation typically because of the belief that family presence will somehow disrupt the providers' ability to conduct the resuscitation. This article explores the background behind this issue and the studies done to date on family presence and makes suggestions for adopting policies allowing family presence during resuscitation.</p>","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"10 1","pages":"12-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.NHL.0000312549.46918.be","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"27362037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Patient Self-determination Act: Has It Reached the End of Its Life?","authors":"","doi":"10.1097/01.nhl.0000300772.04369.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.nhl.0000300772.04369.59","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"9 1","pages":"132-133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.nhl.0000300772.04369.59","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61692837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Patient Self-determination Act: has it reached the end of its life?","authors":"Daria L Kring","doi":"10.1097/01.NHL.0000300767.91800.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NHL.0000300767.91800.17","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Patient Self-determination Act requires that patients be informed in writing of their right to accept or refuse treatment and the right to an advance directive. For the past 15 years, hospitals have been providing these written materials, yet advance directives are still not adequately directing end-of-life care. Barriers and facilitators to implementation of this law are discussed, as well as the role of nursing management in meeting its true intent.</p>","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"9 4","pages":"125-31, quiz 132-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.NHL.0000300767.91800.17","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41041883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a standardized medication assistant curriculum.","authors":"Nancy Spector, Mary Doherty","doi":"10.1097/01.NHL.0000300770.58627.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NHL.0000300770.58627.01","url":null,"abstract":"A crossthecountry,many nonnurses are administering medications to individuals in nonacute healthcare settings and in other settings where healthcare is not the primary focus (hereinafter, these will be referred to as nonacute settings). Because many states are using medication assistants in nonacute settings, the Boards of Nursing, in their mission to protect the public, became concerned about a lack of uniformity in the qualifications and training of these unlicensed assistive personnel. Therefore, the Member Boards of the National Council State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN)* passed a resolution asking NCSBN to conduct a job analysis of medication assistants, develop a model curriculum, and explore the feasibility for administering a competency examination. At NCSBN’s 2007 annual meeting, the information on the job analysis and feasibility study was presented, and the Member Boards adopted, through a majority vote, the model medication assistant curriculum. This article will discuss the development of that NCSBN model curriculum, thus enabling employers and regulators to understand how and why it was established and to learn about its recommendations. The National Council State Boards of Nursing took the position in their 2004 Model Nursing Practice Act and Model Administrative Rules, Article XVIII, Chapter 18, that if jurisdictions use medication assistants, they should be regulated by Boards of Nursing. The NCSBN model practice act and rules termed the medication assistant who received and passed an approved training program and successfully completed a comprehensive examination, a medication assistant certified. Currently, 14 Boards of Nursing regulate medication assistants. This model curriculum will provide those Boards that do regulate medication assistants, as well as those that may in the future, with a resource for regulating and training medication assistants.","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"9 4","pages":"119-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.NHL.0000300770.58627.01","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41041881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conversations in Ethics.","authors":"Edward L Beard, Larry W Johnson","doi":"10.1097/01.NHL.0000300771.66251.b0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NHL.0000300771.66251.b0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"9 4","pages":"117-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.NHL.0000300771.66251.b0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41041880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conversations in ethics.","authors":"Edward L Beard, Larry W Johnson","doi":"10.1097/01.NHL.0000287976.51676.d8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NHL.0000287976.51676.d8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"9 3","pages":"95-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.NHL.0000287976.51676.d8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26914772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minors' Rights in Medical Decision Making","authors":"S. Lindberg","doi":"10.1097/01.nhl.0000287981.82170.7f","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.nhl.0000287981.82170.7f","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"9 1","pages":"105-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.nhl.0000287981.82170.7f","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"61692822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a standardized and evidence-based continued competence assessment for registered nurses.","authors":"Anne Wendt, Maryann Alexander","doi":"10.1097/01.NHL.0000287969.44053.e0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NHL.0000287969.44053.e0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"9 3","pages":"74-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.NHL.0000287969.44053.e0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26914771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Minors' rights in medical decision making.","authors":"Kathryn Hickey","doi":"10.1097/01.NHL.0000287968.36429.a9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.NHL.0000287968.36429.a9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the past, minors were not considered legally capable of making medical decisions and were viewed as incompetent because of their age. The authority to consent or refuse treatment for a minor remained with a parent or guardian. This parental authority was derived from the constitutional right to privacy regarding family matters, common law rule, and a general presumption that parents or guardians will act in the best interest of their incompetent child. However, over the years, the courts have gradually recognized that children younger than 18 years who show maturity and competence deserve a voice in determining their course of medical treatment. This article will explore the rights and interests of minors, parents, and the state in medical decision making and will address implications for nursing administrators and leaders.</p>","PeriodicalId":80291,"journal":{"name":"JONA'S healthcare law, ethics and regulation","volume":"9 3","pages":"100-4; quiz 105-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1097/01.NHL.0000287968.36429.a9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"26914774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}