Steps That A Nurse Should Follow docx.

Running head: REFLECTIVE ESSAY
REFLECTIVE ESSAY
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REFLECTIVE ESSAY
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The steps that a nurse should follow to provide appropriate care include assessment of
the situation, diagnosis of the diseases, outcome or planning the way of treatment,
implementation of the techniques and the final evaluation (Simmons & Rahman, 2014). But
in this case study, it is quite evident that the nurse had not followed any of this step. On top of
that, she further neglected the duties she was assigned and thus, it can be understood that the
nurse violated the guidelines a nurse should follow to take proper care of the patients under
her charge. In this study, the unprofessional activity of the nurse will be discussed in details
and how this will help me to be more careful in future endeavours.
The five acts of unprofessional conducts are violation of the code of ethics which
includes maintenance of proper documentation about the patient and disease history, the
quality of care, patient safety, patient-centred care and clinical skill (Epstein & Turner, 2015).
The nurse failed to do the proper documentation of the patients under her charge, failed to do
the pre-operative documentation, forgot to note the vital status of the patients, she failed to
provide the medications to the patients and failed to apply a proper dressing. Thus, the nurse
in this clinical scenario violated all these codes of ethics that a nurse should maintain strictly
(Lachman, Swanson & Winland-Brown, 2015).
The consequences of these unprofessional conducts can be grieveous. The Patient
Safety Act states the nurses should take utmost care of the patients by providing medications
from time to time, along with taking care of other necessary duties of patient care (World
Health Organization, 2017). Providing quality care along with maintaining patient safety is
extremely important that should be followed in all the hospitals and the health care
professionals should follow them minutely to ensure proper patient care. However, as the
concerned nurse failed to provide care as per the regulation, the patients might contract any
infection during the faulty dressing, might get any other additional health complications