Title
Ethical Practice and Social Media
Author
Sue Field DNP, RN, CNE
Put X in box to correspond with
the SLO (s)
Patient Relationship
Centered Care
Put X in box to correspond with
the Competency (s)
Knowledge/Practice/Ethical
Comportment
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P
E
Communication Skills
Nursing Process
Learning Needs
Documentation
Informatics
Prioritization
Informatics/Technology
Nursing Judgment/Evidence
Based care
Nursing Judgment
Student
Learning
Outcome(s)
Professional Identify and
behaviors
x
Quality Improvement
Professionalism
Ethical/Legal
x
x
x
x
Patient Care Concerns
Systems
Patient Complications
Safe Nursing
Communication
Safety
Teamwork and
Collaboration
Conflict Recognition
Managing Care of the
Individual Patient
Managing Care of the Individual
Patient
Assign/Monitor
Where should this assignment be used:
Classroom
Clinical Setting
Independent Study
Online/Web Based
Skills Lab
Simulation
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Revised from Linda Caputi © (What type of assignment is this?)
Patient Care Assignment
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Patient Care
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Systems Focused
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The student focuses on
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the student while providing
critical thinking and clinical
specific aspects of
student understand the
patient care in the clinical
reasoning and teaches
patient care such as
clinical world, the nurse’s
setting.
students to think like a
safety, falls, diabetes,
work therein, and the effect
Example: Concept mapping care
nurse.
other diseases, etc.
of the system on the nurse
for one or multiple patients.
and the patient.
Example: How the system
completes medication
administration from order to
delivery to patient.
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Assignment: Ethical Practice and Social Media
Competencies measured in this assignment:
PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND BEHAVIOR - ETHICAL/LEGAL COMPETENCY:
Explain (K), demonstrate (P), and value (E) nursing care within ethical, legal, regulatory frameworks and within the scope of
practice for the LPN.
PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND BEHAVIOR - PROFESSIONALISM:
Describe (K), demonstrate (P), and accept (E) responsibility for personal integrity, professional boundaries, professional
behaviors and lifelong learning.
Directions:
Watch the National Council States Board of Nursing 6 minutes video on social media at: https://www.ncsbn.org/2930.htm
PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND BEHAVIOR - ETHICAL/LEGAL
COMPETENCY: Knowledge
1. Apply at least 2 ethical principles from the National
Federation of Licensed Practical Nursing (NFLPN)
Standards of Practice to the violations committed by
Emily and Jason’s practice (NFLPN Ethics on next page).
2. Describe at least 2 legal/ethical NFLPN Standards of
Practice that Jason invoked upon realizing that he had
violated HIPPA?
Read the Social Media White Paper developed by National Council States Board of Nursing (NCSBN) at:
https://www.ncsbn.org/2930.htm
PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND BEHAVIOR - ETHICAL/LEGAL
COMPETENCY: Ethical Comportment
3. After reading the Social Media White Paper, describe in
your own words 3 ways that you can prevent
legal/ethical principles from being violated in your own
practice?
4.
Read the Professional Boundaries Brochure found at https://www.ncsbn.org/2930.htm
PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND BEHAVIOR PROFESSIONALISM: Knowledge
5. Describe how Emily and Jason may have crossed the
“professional boundaries” of patient centered care.
PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY AND BEHAVIOR PROFESSIONALISM: Ethical Comportment
6. After reading the Professional Boundaries Brochure,
describe in your own words 3 ways that you can prevent
professional boundaries from being crossed in your own
practice.
NFLPN Standards of Practice: Legal/Ethical Status
1. Shall hold a current license to practice nursing as a LP/VN in accordance with the law of the state wherein employed.
2. Shall know the scope of practice authorized by the Nursing Practice Act in the state wherein employed.
3. Shall have a personal commitment to fulfill the legal responsibilities inherent in good nursing practice.
4. Shall take responsible actions in situations wherein there is unprofessional conduct by a peer or other health care
provider.
5. Shall recognize and have a commitment to meet the ethical and moral obligations of the practice of nursing.
6. Shall not accept or perform professional responsibilities which the individual knows (s)he is not competent to
perform.
Nursing Practice Standards for the Licensed Practical/Vocation Nursing. (2003). Retrieved from www.nflpn.org
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Legal and Ethical Rubric for Grading
Criteria
Legal Ethical
violations
Jason’s
response
Social Media
White Paper
Professional
Boundary
Crossings
Application
Satisfactory (__points each)
Needs Improvement (__ points each)
Unsatisfactory (__points each)
Applies at least 2 legal/ethical
principles from the NFLPN
standards that were violated by
Emily and Jason. Explains the
standards and how the 2 nurses
violated them.
Lists at least 2 legal/ethical
principles from the NFLPN
standards that Jason invoked
after realizing that he had
violated the law.
Identifies at least 3 strategies to
prevent violation of legal/ethical
principles from the social media
white paper.
Describes thoughtfully and
thoroughly how Jason and Emily
may have crossed professional
boundaries.
Lists 1 legal/ethical principle from
the NFLPN standards that were
violated by Emily and Jason.
Describes the standard but does
not fully identify how the 2 nurses
violated them.
Lists at least 1 legal/ethical
principles from the NFLPN
standards that Jason invoked after
realizing that he had violated the
law.
Identifies at 2 strategies to prevent
violation of legal/ethical principles
from the social media white paper.
Describes briefly how Jason and
Emily may have crossed
professional boundaries.
Unable to list legal/ethical
principles from the NFLPN
standards that Jason invoked
after realizing that he had
violated the law.
Identifies only 1 strategy to
prevent violation of
legal/ethical principles from the
social media white paper.
Does not describe how Jason
and Emily may have crossed
professional boundaries.
Describes 3 ways that student can
prevent professional boundaries
from being crossed in their own
practice.
Describes 2ways that student can
prevent professional boundaries
from being crossed in their own
practice.
Describes 1 way that students
can prevent professional
boundaries from being crossed
in their own practice.
Points:
Total Points:
3
Unable to list legal/ethical
principles violated or how the
nurses violated them.