Leadership and Management Course in Professional Nursing Role

Course Description: This course will focus on theory and concepts associated with leadership and management in the professional nurse’s role.  Course Environments and Activities: Activities for this course will occur online class activity. Clinical practicum activities for this course will occur in clinical facilities that focus on the health and wellness of adult clients i.e. in?patient and out?patient facilities, etc.

Course Objectives
At the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Apply theories of effective leadership and management within selected health care areas
2. Utilize the skills of nursing process, critical thinking, ethical decision making, communication, and therapeutic nursing intervention in managing culturally competent, cost?effective care of groups of clients across the wellness/illness continuum
3. Collaborate with interdisciplinary health care team members in prioritizing and coordinating quality/cost?effective healthcare
4. Demonstrate leadership and management of a caregiving team comprised of individuals with varied cultural and ethnic origins, and varied levels of clinical knowledge and competencies
5. Utilize skills of inquiry and research as a means to enhance knowledge base, facilitate change, and improve quality of care
6. Demonstrate professional accountability for effective leadership within nursing practice and for advancement of the profession

Questions:

Q1 Prenatal diagnostic tests can inform if the baby is at risk for various birth abnormalities, many of which are genetic illnesses. Accessibility to diagnosis, management, and treatment of hereditary diseases must be included in a genuine right to a healthy environment.  This critical information must be communicated to the parents in the strictest of confidence, with full disclosure of the dangers, susceptibility, and severity (Shkedi?Rafid, et al., 2016). Health department personnel may contact the affected person to discuss with him the importance of informing his or her partner especially when there is a probability to harm another person (Butts & Rich, 2016). 

Q2 Cystic Fibrosis is a hereditary condition that primarily leads to inflammation of the lungs, as well as the liver, pancreas, kidneys, and gut. CF is passed down through the family in an autosomal recessive pattern (Goetz et al., 2019).  The occurrence of abnormalities in both versions of the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance (CFTR) gene causes it. Those with one specific functional gene are carriers, but otherwise appear to be in good condition. If a household has a documented rare mutation, diagnostic testing can be done for that mutagenesis. As screening methods do not detect all identified mutations, a negative screening does not ensure that a kid will not get Cystic Fibrosis. Both parents should have the CF gene to conceive a child with CF. To be afflicted, the child would have to inherit the CFTR gene from both parents. The baby would be deemed a carrier if he inherited the gene only from either parent, in this case, he wouldn’t be affected by Cystic Fibrosis (Szasz et al.,2019).

Q3 The concept of non-maleficence, or "do no harm," states that a healthcare practitioner should operate in a specific manner so that she or he does no injury, even though the patient asks it. Avoid dangerous actions so that the individual is not exposed to unneeded or useless therapies based on genetic findings that may create dangers (Dunn et al., 2018).

Beneficence involves, the commitment to provide benefits to specific patients or clients is inextricably linked to non - maleficence. Its seeming self-evident significance distinguishes it as the Hippocratic posterity's other key principle: doctors must heal and treat their patients as per their abilities and judgment. It involves taking constructive actions for the participant's benefit. Diagnoses are aided by genetic testing, which also guides treatment and life decisions. The stress of consideration for the liberty of the person whom the health care professional is attempting to assist tempers the paternalistic kindness inherent in the concepts of maleficence and non-beneficence. 

The principle of autonomy, on the other hand, transcends personal health care and is fundamental in the public health environment as the patient has the full capability to take decisions independently. The recurrent purpose of public health on community benefit has the tendency to push individual welfare to the front. Offer patients enough knowledge so they can make properly informed, free decisions about genetic analysis and care that are compatible with their beliefs and values. It's also conceivable to think of the theory of justice (commonly known as "social justice") as stemming from the essential quality of individual autonomy. As a result, requests for disparate treatment of individuals must bear the weight of proof once more. Equality of opportunity, on the other hand, is a requirement of justice. It also ensures fair access to health consequences in communities, which are sometimes referred to as "health equality" in global health discussions.  (Butts & Rich, 2016).