Legal And Ethical Nursing Question and Answer 2022

Running head: LEGAL AND ETHICAL NURSING
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Legal and Ethical Nursing
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LEGAL AND ETHICAL NURSING 2
Question 1
Nursing codes of ethics/practice/standards are guidelines that guide midwives and nurses in their
daily practice. These codes also ensure that nurses and midwives understand their professional
responsibility for delivering safe and quality care to their patients effectively and ethically
(NMBA, 2019). The codes relate to the provided case study in the way the nurses delivered
unsafe care to Peter. They exercised negligence from when Peter was admitted to the hospital, to
when he passed on after deterioration.
Question 2
The Australian Charter for Health Care Rights outlines the rights of all consumers of health care.
These rights include the right to quality and safe care (Victoria Department of Health and Human
Services, 2017). However, in the provided case study, these rights were violated. Peter did not
receive the quality care that he deserved to ensure a better health outcome.
Question 3
Duty of care in nursing can be described as the nursing obligations that require a practitioner to
exercise reasonable care and skill during care provision, thus preventing harm and injury to the
patient (Water, Rasmussen, Neufeld, Gerrard & Ford, 2017). In the provided case study, the first
nurse had a duty of care of informing the anesthetist of Peter’s low saturation of oxygen. The
nurse at the ward also had a duty of care of checking Peter’s new level of oxygen saturation after
oxygen administration. All these nurses, however, ignored their duty of care, thus bringing more
harm and eventually the death of Peter.
Question 4