What is competency?
Legal; ability to understand health and financial situation
What ethical principles were at play in our scenarios?
Beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy
How is performing BSSR an ethical practice?
Advocating for patient, maintaining our responsibility to keep patients safe, identify unsafe conditions, sharing information (informed consent)
Who can request an ethics consult?
Any member of the healthcare team, patient, guardian, family member
What is the nurse's ethical obligation to her patient?
The nurse should encourage her patient to share her concerns with her doctor
What is Capacity?
Clinical term; ability to understand current information and make a decision
How is an ethics consult made?
Telemediq "Prisma Health Ethics Consultation", Call the on-call Chaplin, Submit a "bioethics" order in EPIC