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What standard is the presentation about?
Conflict of Interest
Definition of Conflict of Interest
When an individual's personal interests comprise their judgments, decisions or actions in the workplace
Is promoting your child's fundraising activity to patients a conflict of interest?
YES
True or False: A nurse keeping profesional boundaries is a conflict of interest.
FALSE
True or False: Nurses identify and seek to avoid actual, potential, or percieved conflicts of interest.
In nursing practice, a nurse accepting gifts or favors from pharmaceutical companies in exchange for promoting their products is an example of this type of conflict.
Financial Conflict
1.) Actual
2.) Potential
3.) Perceieved
List 3 Examples of Conflict of Interest:
1.) Gift giving/Receiving gifts
2.) Hiring an unqualified relative or friend
3.) Promoting your personal beliefs
4.) Promoting services outside of the workplace for your benefit
List 3 strategies to prevent conflict of interest:
1.) Establish and maintain boundaries
2.) Manage personal and professsional conflicts privately
3.) Maintain professionalism
4.) Follow the rules
How many key principles and BCCNM Standards are there for Conflict of Interest
7
What would you do in this scenario: If you are not sure whether a situation involves a conflict of interest or you need help with an unavoidable conflict of interest in nursing practice
1.) Discuss it with your supervisor
2.) A colleague who understands ethical practice
3.) Refer to your organization's practice resources on ethics
True or False: To manage a conflict you may need to remove yourself from participating in discussions, making decisions or providing care
TRUE
Impacts on Client Care:
1.) Impaired decision making
2.) Lack of Trust
3.) Potential Harm to clients
4..) Reduce quality of care
5.) Ethical dilemmas
Which Act dictates specific restriction on certain conflicts of interest.
Health Care and Care Facility Act
Do the discussed standards apply to all health care professionals or only nurses?
Only Nurses (the standards dicussed in the presentation were BCCNM standards)