Mary Ellen Smith Glasgow, H. Michael Dreher, Michael D. Dahnke, John Gyllenhammer

Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing Education (eBook, ePUB)

An Essential Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 attorney
• An entire section of legal and ethical cases, featuring a unique philosophical and ethical perspective
• Delivers best practices for nursing faculty
• Provides 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 terms
• An Instructor's Manual and discussion questions facilitate teaching.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780826161932
• Artikelnr.: 60201627

Autorenporträt

MARY ELLEN SMITH GLASGOW, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, ANEF, FNAP, FAAN, serves as Dean and Professor of Duquesne University School of Nursing. She has also served as Vice-Provost of Research during part of her current tenure at Duquesne. Dr. Glasgow previously served as Associate Dean for Nursing, Undergraduate Health Professions, and Continuing Education and Chair of Undergraduate Programs at Drexel University. Dr. Glasgow was selected as a 2009 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellow. As dean, under her leadership, enrollment and NCLEX-RN scores increased, and research and scholarship significantly expanded. Duquesne University School of Nursing is recognized as a national leader in nursing education, emphasizing social justice, digital technologies, and graduates with strong ethical reasoning skills. In 2015, she led the development of the first dual undergraduate Biomedical Engineering and Nursing Program in the country, and in 2017, a PhD in Nursing Ethics. Dr. Glasgow is an innovator in nursing and health professions, both nationally and internationally. At Drexel, she created a BSN Co-op Program, a BSN Accelerated Career Entry Program, Pathway to Health Professions Program, and other forward-thinking educational programs. She also advanced online pedagogy, developing one of the largest online nursing programs in the country. She previously served as Associate Editor for Oncology Nursing Forum, responsible for the Leadership and Professional Development feature column. She is the coauthor of four books, two of which have won first place in the American Journal of Nursing Book-of-the-Year Award. Dr. Glasgow has authored over 100 articles and book chapters and has presented nationally and internationally. She was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, NLN Academy of Nursing Education Fellow, and as a Distinguished Fellow in the National Academies of Practice. She has been honored with the Villanova University College of Nursing Alumni Medallion for Distinguished Contribution to Nursing Education and received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Gwynedd-Mercy University. Recently, she served on the Health Service Executive and National Nursing and Midwifery Quality-Care Metrics Project Team to develop quality metrics for the country of Ireland.

Inhaltsangabe

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
1. Basic Primer on Applied Ethics
2. 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:
3. Neutrality, Confidentiality and Independence: The Role of the Ombudsman
When a Student Files a Complaint
4. Neutrality, Confidentiality and Independence in the Role of the Ombudsman:
When a Faculty Files a Complaint
5. Due Process Issues for the Student
6. A Critical Explanation of what ‘Academic Freedom’ really is and what it is
not!
7. Intellectual Property: – When faculty members misrepresent a work-product
as their own
8. The Tenure Process
9. Harassment
10. Managing Issues of Student Complaints of Discrimination
11. Academic Dishonesty Among Students
12. Academic Freedom Issues for the Student
13. Incivility: Faculty on Faculty and Academic Nursing Administrator on
Faculty, Their Subordinates
14. Conflict of Interest in the Faculty Role
15. Disability Issues for the Student
16. When Academic Nursing Policies are Ignored, Not Enforced, or Overruled?
17. Individual Rights and Public Safety: Addressing Conduct and Mental Health
Issues Among Students
18. Substance Misuse: Assessment and Confrontation in the Nursing Education
19. Medical Marijuana and Nursing Students: An Evolving Higher Education
Quandary
Section IV: Specific Clinical Education Issues
20. Clinical Probation and Failure
21. The Testing Environment
22. Changing the NCLEX-RN to the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model:
Educational, Legal, and Ethical Implications
23. Creating a Safe and Ethical Nursing Education Environment
Section V: Specific Issues Confronting Adjunct Faculty in the Clinical
Agency and Classroom
24. Confronting Adjunct Faculty Issues in the Classroom and Clinical Agency
25. Student-Faculty Professional Boundaries in the Academic and Clinical
Environment
26. Addressing Students with Mental Health Issues or Psychiatric Disabilities
27. A Bad Action: Is it Ethical, Illegal, or Both?