Current Ethical Issues in My APN Track Presentation- My track is Family Nurse practitioner Topic chosen Chronic opioid management in primary care

Current Ethical Issues in My APN Track Presentation- My track is Family Nurse practitioner

Topic chosen

Chronic opioid management in primary care

Decision-Making Model

You already chose:
✅ Beauchamp and Childress’ Principlism Approach

• Focuses on autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice
• Well-suited to FNP and aligns with ANA Code of Ethics

Chronic Opioid Therapy for Non-Cancer Pain

Ethical conflict: Beneficence vs. Nonmaleficence

• Risk of addiction vs. need for pain control
• Stakeholders: Patients, FNPs, DEA, insurers, families
• National crisis = lots of empirical data, EBP, policies
  ✅ CDC guidelines, ANA & AANP statements available

This assignment provides you with the opportunity to examine a healthcare or professional issue of interest in which ethical conflict is present.

Overview

Each of you will create a Kaltura Capture presentation in which you:

1. Identify a health-related topic that contains ethical conflict related to your APN track (AGACNP, CNM, FNP, NNP, PMHNP, or PNP) that is different than the topic you used in your Ethics Case Analysis (Assignment 7.1).
2. Select a decision-making model to use for your topic.
3. Provide background information, including relevant historical, social/cultural, policy, and political contextual factors from all viewpoints about the topic.
4. Supply empirical research that adds to the understanding of the topic.
5. Describe why the issue is significant to individuals, society, health care, and/or nursing.
6. Identify all alternative courses of action, identifying perspectives of relevant stakeholders.
7. Analyze different ways of thinking about the issue utilizing the ethical principles, moral theories, and codes of ethics encountered in the course.
8. Briefly summarize the ethical conflict and various courses of action open to stakeholders.

Important

You will not articulate the ethically correct course of action in the presentation or provide recommendations for APN practice, advocacy, or leadership. Your presentation should not convey what you think the ethically correct action should be for your topic.

Make sure you present both sides of the argument equally. The person watching your presentation should not have any idea of what you think the ethically correct action should be. Think of a courtroom, with both sides presenting a strong case before the judge. Be thorough, as your classmates should not have to do any additional research on the topic.

Remember to include strong supporting evidence and not just speak in generalizations, just like you would at a nursing conference. Be sure to include any position statements that our professional nursing or other organizations might have about supporting or opposing the issue. This topic should be well-researched.

Step 1: Choose Your Topic

You may choose a topic of your choice, but it must be related to your APN track (AGACNP, CNM, FNP, NNP, PMHNP, or PNP), and it must be a different topic than the one you used for the Ethics Case Analysis. A list of possible topics was listed in Week 7 and other possible topics were presented in your Week 11 readings.

Step 2: Choose a Decision-Making Model

Refer to Week 11’s readings and lesson for a list of decision-making models. Determine which model is best suited for your topic and presentation.

Step 3: Create Your Presentation

You must use this PPT templateLinks to an external site. when creating your video presentation. The template is to ensure a degree of uniformity across the presentations. You may add pictures or change the background color to personalize your presentation, but this is not required.

Tips to Create Uncluttered Slides

• Do not use complete sentences on slides. Use bullet points and concise language.
• Allow space around the text to enhance readability.
• Place APA citations in a smaller font than the main text.
• Group content under headings appropriate to your topic. For example, on background slides, you could use these headings (as appropriate to your topic): Federal & State Law; Cultural & Social Aspects

The presentation should be 18–20 minutes in length. The instructor will only grade the first 20 minutes of the video presentation. Please ensure that your appearance is professional and that your setting (which will be visible to the instructor and the student reviewing your presentation) is not distracting to the viewer. Also, make sure your audio hardware is working properly and your headset volume is set sufficiently loud.

Exemplar

Select the following button to review an exemplar. Since this topic is discussed at length, you cannot use it for this assignment. Also remember, you cannot choose abortion [includes termination of any pregnancy, at any point, for any reason] for this course, as exemplars were provided in Week 7.

Exemplar [PPT]Links to an external site.

Step 4: Record Your Presentation

You must use the Kaltura Capture Desktop Recorder to record your video presentation. Use a headset for the best quality audio, and test your recording for sound quality.

Note: You will not be able to upload a PPT or other files to this assignment. You must use Kaltura Capture.

Step 5: Submit Your Presentation

See the Video Assignments for Students tutorialLinks to an external site. for Kaltura video assignment submission instructions. Note: Do not publish your videos to the Media Gallery, your instructor will only grade the videos uploaded and submitted to this assignment page.

Note: You will not be able to upload a PPT or other files to this assignment. You must use Kaltura Capture.

Ethical Analysis Model

I will utilize Beauchamp and Childress' Principlism Approach in my Current Topics Presentation. Due to the fact that the four basic principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice are highlighted, the model of this ethical analysis is widely applied in the field of health care. These guidelines provide an informative and balanced framework for the analysis of moral dilemmas in the field of advanced practice as well as nursing.

It is practical and flexible, thus my choice. It enables the APRN to be open to alternative views without being rigid in a given theory of ethics. Patient care by virtue of using the four principles can be compassionate yet ethically supportable in practical clinical practice even in controversial or complicated situations. For instance, this paradigm fosters reflective thinking that upholds patients' rights yet considers wider consequences in a given circumstance like in informed consent, in terminal care, or in the distribution of resources.

It fosters steady, intentional decision-making and is highly compatible with the nursing process as well as the ANA Code of Ethics. To determine the best moral and patient-centered solution, the model also fosters collaboration with interdisciplinary groups. It is also advantageous that the model places a strong focus on justice, as this works exceptionally well in addressing issues that are often the center of modern-day healthcare issues, including disparities in health, health determinants based on socioeconomic status, as well as the delivery of fair care. In my view, the Principlism Approach is well-tailored to my topic based on its flexibility and lucidity, and it will aid in directing a good ethical analysis.

References

American Nurses Association. (2021). Nursing: Scope and Standards of Practice (4th ed.).

Beauchamp, T. L., & Childress, J. F. (2019). Principles of Biomedical Ethics (8th ed.). Oxford University Press.

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