Establishing a community-academic nursing partnership to lead a healthcare response during a human trafficking extraction operation.

A community-academic nursing partnership formed to care for the urgent healthcare needs of individuals extracted from human trafficking during a multidisciplinary team operation. During past human trafficking extraction operations, law enforcement and the state sexual assault nurse examiner coordinator recognized the need to meet the patients' immediate physical and emotional needs while providing essential comfort to the newly extracted individuals. To meet the immediate holistic healthcare needs during the recovery operation, the nursing faculty partnered with a local nonprofit community clinic to provide onsite trauma-informed, patient-centered healthcare and comfort items.

Confidentiality challenges and good clinical practices in human subjects research: striking a balance.

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) has been fully implemented in clinical practice and research settings. Although subject confidentiality has always been a concern, clinical researchers must now take extra care to attend to the mandates of privacy while also minding good clinical practice guidelines. Unanticipated conflicts may arise as a result of these dual priorities.

A transactional model of cancer family caregiving skill.

Family caregivers of persons receiving treatment of cancer must acquire illness-related skills not usually found among nonprofessional caregivers. Although research is needed to understand the skill acquisition process, no models of family caregiving skill exist to guide such research. The purpose of this study was to develop a model of caregiving skill through qualitative research.

Ethical considerations for nurse-managed health centers.

Ethical issues are commonplace in the health care delivery system. Nurse practitioners (NPs) working in nurse-managed health centers (NMHCs) frequently care for patients who are vulnerable and marginalized as a result of their culture, language, low income, or lack of insurance. Because a nurse's commitment is to care for patients without considerations of social or economic status, personal attributes, or the nature of health problems, the distress that occurs while advocating for patients through and around existing barriers to health care access needs to be anticipated and addressed.

Consent and confidentiality issues among school-age children and adolescents.

This article supports the moral viewpoint that minors with decision-making capacity, regardless of their age, should be involved in their health care decisions. When clinical care proceeds without attention to a child's emotional and developmental potential, the needs of a young person to be socialized to take care of his or her health care from an early age are not met. This is ethically irresponsible.