Potential Topics for Self-Construct Analysis - Nursing Assessment Answer

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Potential Topics for Self-Construct Analysis

These topics are suggestions only, you can come up with your own. You just need to discuss a health-related topic where your public self conflicts with your private self. For example, you know nurses should care for all people with compassion however, you might be very uncomfortable looking after a patient who is intoxicated. Your assessments will only be viewed by your markers who will keep them confidential. If you are in doubt about your topic, discuss it with your tutor first.

• Hospital admission for people with anxiety 
• Breast implants for young women
• Caring for a patient with a blood-borne illness
• Caring for people with dementia/delirium
• Caring for people who self-harm
• Caring for handcuffed prisoners in hospital
• Caring for people withdrawing from drugs/alcohol
• Caring for people with eating disorders
• Cardiac surgery on people who are morbidly obese
• Circumcision of baby boys
• Compulsory immunisation/vaccination
• Morning after pill
• Needle exchange for IV drug users
• Not for resuscitation orders
• Organ donation for alcoholics/smokers
• People's responsibility for their own health
• Plastic surgery
• Pregnancy in women with a cognitive disability or severe mental illness
• Unhealthy habits in nurses
• Unlimited visiting hours/unlimited number of visitors
• Voluntary euthanasia (VE) or physician assisted suicide (PAS) 

Withdrawal of active treatment in end-of-life care