Reflective Journal Entry Week 4: Legal and Ethical Issues

1. Share what you had expected to learn about the topic before beginning the unit. Before beginning this unit and looking and the objectives and overviews for this module I expected to learn about ethical issues that pertain to quality improvement and nursing.

2. What you actually learned from the unit. I learned about current ethical issues that involve quality improvement and I also learned about different ethical and legal situations nurses and quality improvement personnel have to deal with and further critically think about how I would act or conduct myself in these types of situations.

3. Discuss your feelings/experiences from the activities (individual and team)? I really enjoyed the learning activities this week because I felt like they were all really applicable to my career in nursing and are things that I can look back on throughout my career and see the way I thought through these types of situations when I had a lot of time to research and think about the issues as well as take into consideration what my team members opinions were in these types of situations. These learning activities were very thought provoking and were great learning experiences.

4. How you will utilize the information learned in your nursing practice. I will definitely utilize the information that I learned this week throughout my career. There are so many different types of legal and ethical situations that I will be placed in as a nurse and to have the experience of critically thinking through those types of situations previously in this class will help me to critically think through similar situations in the future. I also learned a lot from this module on how to prepare or prevent these types of situations from happening with charting and using the modes that are put in place to protect me such as incident reports.

5. You personal feelings about the material covered. I feel like the material covered in this module was very beneficial for me and will be material I can look back on in order to continue to improve my nursing practice. I think it information that nurses do not think or avoid thinking they will run into throughout their career but is something we need to realize will happen and having the chance to experience it through these assignments and case studies will be beneficial for us in the future.