The Health Care Reform Act Provides Insurance for All U

The Health Care Reform Act provides insurance for all U.S. citizens and legal residents presenting far reaching ethical considerations related to diverse individual patient health care beliefs for those delivering nursing care. Nurses must consider their civil rights under the Rights of conscience and how new health care agendas such as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) could affect their practice in situations that may conflict with their own belief system. Today's practicing nurse must:

A) remember it is one's professional duty to render patient-centered care-even when it is in direct conflict with the nurse's own beliefs-or be held liable for withholding treatment.
B) consider whether the right to act according to one's inner beliefs will continue to be permissible when federal health insurance becomes fully enacted.
C) discuss with the patient and family different options in hopes they will accept the nurse's health care beliefs.
D) suggest to the hospital administration that they not accept federal funding to prevent controversial health practices.