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Legal and Professional Issues Assignment Nursing

   

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Running head: LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUESLegal and professional issuesName of the studentUniversity nameAuthor’s note
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1LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUESIntroduction The current study focuses on the aspect of the application of nursing and midwifery boardstandards (Australia) in providing optimum care and support to patients within an acute hospitalcare set up. The goal of the nursing standards is to establish a person-centred and evidence-based care approaches. The analysis for the present scenario is done on the basis of the tanner’smodel. The tanner’s model provides a comprehensive clinical judgment. I have used the tanner’s approach to evaluate the legal and professional boundariesapplicable within the context of nursing studies. Here, I have tried to use various parameters ofthe model for handling my care duties as a nursing professional. Background of the case studyIn one of my recent professional experience, I have come across a 72 years old patientnamed Mr HD who had to be undergone surgery on the same day of admission to the hospital.The man was admitted to the hospital owing to pain due to appendicitis. However, one of theissues encountered by me while attending the patient was that the ‘no objection' consent formwas not signed by the patient. I tried reciprocating the same to the patient, only to realise that hewas a German speaking man and could not decipher my message. Thus, I had to take the help ofa language interpreter for understanding the messages communicated to me by Mr HD. Culturaland language differences possesses a major hindrance in the obtainment of objectives of healthand care (Birks et al., 2016).
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2LEGAL AND PROFESSIONAL ISSUESNoticing From my initial assessment of the situation, I realized that the man had great difficulty incomprehending any of the instruction or messages delivered to him within the care centre. Thiscould be attributed to the language or cultural differences possessed by the man. In this respect,as a nursing professional catering to the health requirements of Mr HD, I need to make sure thathe understands every bit of the procedure that he is going through. In the course of spending more time with the patient, I realized that Mr HD lives in theHesse region of Germany with his family, which consisted of his wife and a 24 years old son.Mr Hesse worked in a local bakery and his son worked in a construction factory and had onlyrelocated to Australia two years ago. However, language illiteracy can come across one of thebiggest hindrances in the context of healthcare (Ossenberg, Henderson, & Dalton, 2015).InterpretingWorking as a nursing professional looking after the care concerns of Mr HD and family Ihad identified the possible factors which resulted in the deterioration of the patient healthcondition. In this context, Mr HD and family held on to a number of cultural beliefs andattributes, which formed the basis of their cultural paradoxes. As per the cultural beliefs of MrHD, health issues could be treated with simple homely therapies and thus ignored the pain in hislower abdomen. As commented by Gill et al., (2017), sufficient health advocacy or healtheducation can help in removing the wrong health beliefs and cultural paradoxes from the mindsof people. In my practice, I encountered a similar situation in the past, where I had to take charge ofan 85-year-old lady of Australian aboriginal context. The woman had been admitted to the
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