Question 1
Use the scenario to answer the question that follow:
A patient was admitted to female medical ward for high blood pressure. The ward doctor ordered hourly blood pressure monitoring and vital signs for 8 hours. A registered nurse on duty failed to check the patient’s blood pressure for four consecutive hours, and when they finally remembered, they found patient had collapsed and ultimately died. The nurse was later found liable to professional negligence.
Outline the four (4) elements established in laying a charge of negligence against the nurse.
Question 2
Discuss with the aid of a clinical examples how a nurse demonstrates the use of the following ethical principles in rendering patient care:
a. Beneficence
b. Fidelity
Question 3
Use the scenario to answer question that follow.
You are the nurse manager in the Male Medical ward and a supervisee who just got married just reported back to work with nail extensions measuring two (2) centimeters long. On confrontation, she maintains that she is still enjoying the remnants of her wedding day, that the job is depressing, and that her nails uplift her mood.
Discuss any three (3) ways you will apply assertiveness in handling the matter as a nurse
manager.