Legal and Ethical Issues in Nursing Education (eBook)

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

5. Basic Primer on Applied Ethics


6. 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:

7. Neutrality, Confidentiality and Independence: The Role of the Ombudsman When a Student Files a Complaint


8. Neutrality, Confidentiality and Independence in the Role of the Ombudsman: When a Faculty Files a Complaint


9. Due Process Issues for the Student


10. A Critical Explanation of what ‘Academic Freedom’ really is and what it is not!


11. Intellectual Property: – When faculty members misrepresent a work-product as their own


12. The Tenure Process


13. Harassment


14. Managing Issues of Student Complaints of Discrimination


15. Academic Dishonesty Among Students


16. Academic Freedom Issues for the Student


17. Incivility: Faculty on Faculty and Academic Nursing Administrator on Faculty, Their Subordinates


18. Conflict of Interest in the Faculty Role


19. Disability Issues for the Student


20. When Academic Nursing Policies are Ignored, Not Enforced, or Overruled?


21. Individual Rights and Public Safety: Addressing Conduct and Mental Health Issues Among Students


22. Substance Misuse: Assessment and Confrontation in the Nursing Education


23. Medical Marijuana and Nursing Students: An Evolving Higher Education Quandary    

Section IV: Specific Clinical Education Issues

24. Clinical Probation and Failure


25. The Testing Environment


26. Changing the NCLEX-RN to the Clinical Judgment Measurement Model: Educational, Legal, and Ethical Implications


27. Creating a Safe and Ethical Nursing Education Environment

Section V: Specific Issues Confronting Adjunct Faculty in the Clinical Agency and Classroom

28. Confronting Adjunct Faculty Issues in the Classroom and Clinical Agency


29. Student-Faculty Professional Boundaries in the Academic and Clinical Environment


30. Addressing Students with Mental Health Issues or Psychiatric Disabilities


31. A Bad Action: Is it Ethical, Illegal, or Both?