Legal issues of an Advanced Practice Nurse in the Workplace

Choose one topic from the following list and evaluate how the chosen topic impacts your role as an advanced practice nurse. What are the legal implications related to your practice? These topics are discussed in this week’s chapter readings from the book. Analyze how understanding of the chosen topic will impact your future practice.

Choose one:

Employer and employee rights

American with Disabilities Act

Employment contracts and unionization

Corporate liability

Sexual harassment in the workplace

Employees with AIDS/HIV and exposure to blood borne pathogens

Environmental health and safety

Reply and comment on at least two of your peers that have chosen a different topic than you have chosen.

Please carefully review the Discussion Board grading rubric in the grading rubrics section of the course home.