Nursing Professional Response 2022

Running head: NURSING PROFESSIONAL
NURSING PROFESSIONAL
Name of Student:
Name of University:
Author’s Note:

NURSING PROFESSIONAL
1
Response 1. Case Summary: Summarizes the case and presenting professional practice
issues
The case study highlights the ignorance from health care professional regarding giving
effective care to the patient. The patient named A, is 81 years old who was having issue of
shortness of breath and due to lack of duty of care of the health care professional has eventually
led to death of the patient. At the initial period of time, the patient was administered with Lasix
drug which was ineffective, later chest X ray and blood test was conducted, and the patient was
diagnosed with diarrhea and tenderness in the right region of the abdomen. However, day after
day the health condition of the patient was deteriorating. The patient was in the state of dizziness
and anxiety, was continuously refusing food. The care giver did not pay any attention to it. The
patient was showing sign of high respiratory rate, low blood pressure, severe back pain, UTI and
immobilization. The health care professional did not arrive on time for evaluation of the patient
and even the respondent did not communicate the issue to other doctors, instead waited for him.
Lack of responsibility and duty of care was noticed in the case study, which has caused
worsening of the health condition. The emergency doctor also did not arrive on time and was not
accountable for their action. Due to such unhealthy behavior by the health care professional
caused death of the patient, however the reason stated in the case study was septicemia.
Response 2. Contributory factors: relevant professional errors that potentially contributed
to the incident happening.
The major professional error noted in the incident are described below:
1. The first professional error noted in case study is unethical behavior and attitude of the
health care professional. They have violated the principle of non-maleficence and also

NURSING PROFESSIONAL
2
did not uphold the beneficence principle in their practice (Aggarwal & Kheriaty, 2018).
The principle of non-maleficence focused on the not doing any harm to the patient by
adopting any unhealthy practice (Ketefian, 2015). It is the responsibility of the health
care professional to do good to the patient, which can bring better health outcome and
give quality care (Teays, 2019). In the case history, the diagnosis was not performed in
time and they ignored many vital signs like Respiratory rate, blood pressure, and heart
rate. This has posed great harm to the health of the patient. Further, no medication was
prescribed to the patient and no response was given to the sign of dizziness and
continuous refusal for the food. All such response has posed great harm to the patient,
which deteriorated the health and caused no improvement. As the consequence, it has
death of the patient. The caregiver must have noted the signs and taken important step to
improve the health of the patient. The efficient care plan should be made by the caregiver
with goal of better health outcome.
2. Lack of effective communication was noted in the case scenario as the other professional
error (Mulder et al., 2015). When the condition of patient was deteriorating, and showed
sign of increased rate of Respiration, the respondent communicated to the clinical nurse
manager however, seek medication for the other patient and ignored the patient A. The
respondent not even communicated the health complication with Mr John. In such case,
when the respondent noticed drastic change in the health of patient, and no emergency
doctor was available, the duty of care was to communicate with nurse manager and ask
for effective medication to control the deteriorating condition. It is evident from the study
of Moore et al. (2018) that telephonic communication prove to be effective in improving
the health of the patient when doctor are not available.