Legal Reflective Analysis Brief
Nurses are challenged with a multitude of healthcare aspects that are influenced by external stakeholders as well as policies. Often times, a nurse is aware of the challenges that impact patient care but is challenged with the resources to make changes. This assignment is to increase awareness of legal dilemmas faced in nursing and gives the nurse a chance to explore solutions applicable to their own clinical practice setting.
Instructions: For this assignment you are to select a priority issue in nursing from this list (Links to an external site.) and use the template provided to complete the assignment
1. Describe the selected priority
The name of the selected priority from the list
The setting in which the issue occurs
Why this is occurring
Most commonly impacted stakeholders
Why you selected this priority over the others on the list
2. Consider the impact of this issue on stakeholders
Is this a legal issue, ethical, or both?
What are 3 consequences of not taking action on this issue?
3. Identify 3 evidence based interventions that could be used to address this issue and cite scholarly sources
4. Reflection Summary (150-300 words)
The reflection focuses on the following:
what you learned about this issue and how it impacts nursing practice,
evidence based interventions
your initial plan for communicating a proposed change in your workplace based upon evidence based interventions
