ETHICAL AND LEGAL COMPLEXITIES 3The registered nurse having noticed my panic instructs me to recap the needlewhich I refused knowing very well the dangers associated with recapping of a needle. Sherepeated the order which I ignored, and for a third time, she shouts at me causing me to bedistressed and become anxious hence I obey her command. When trying to recap theneedle, the needle pierces me on my left thumb, and the nurse jubilantly tells the patientthat she wants to take a blood sample from her to know the disease I had contracted fromthe patient (Driscoll, 2016, p. 90). So What?The second part Driscoll's model seeks to answer so what? It explains what I wasfeeling which is I was feeling anxious and distressed, what was right or wrong about theexperience in which there was nothing good about the experience but bad as there was ahigher risk of contracting a serious blood borne disease from the patient. The other key concept that I should be able to demonstrate is competence in myfield of speciality which is nursing. I was able to show that I have the capacity to what ittakes to be a nurse since I had been trained fully as a nurse and well equipped with thenursing skills and knowledge. Therefore, I was be able to show that am competent, I knewwhat I was doing, and it was the right thing to be done. Confidentiality is the other conceptas a nurse I was be able to demonstrate. Being ethically confidential means that patientscan trust you with their medical condition.. As a medic, I should maintain privacy and alsohave confidence in what I am doing for my patients. My nursing practice should not bebased on trial and errors.Benefit or harm is also another of the key concepts a medic practitioner should beable to demonstrate and I being a nurse in practice; I should have the skills to know thatwhatever I am doing will either harm or benefit the patient. The beneficence indicates that

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