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Nursing and Health Care of a Senior Nurse with Drug Dependence

   

Added on  2021-02-19

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NURSING AND HEALTHCARE
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TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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INTRODUCTIONNursing and health care plays a major role in protecting as well as curing the lives ofmany. The need of different age group varies as per the age group and also the lifestyle(Noguchi. and et.al., 2019). Mavis is a 70 years old nurse, who is retired and is suffering drugaddiction. In which someone is giving her drugs which js causing her hear rate to increase andblood pressure decrease. She has not even passed the urine for 9 hours. She is feeling confused,anxious, frustrated, aggressive and saying I want to go home and I will be late for work. Sheremoves the dressing from the wound and the area starts bleeding. When I tried to help her bywashing her she says that I don't need help.Main BodyETHICSIt is the ethic of any doctor or care taker in the hospital to first treat the patient in theemergency case and then go for any legal issue which is hindering the patient. Here in the caseMavis's condition normal but in the morning the condition was abnormal in which her behaviourchanged outstandingly and surprisingly (O'Rourke, Thompson and McMillan. 2019). Mavis mustbe treated well irrespective of whatever issue otherwise the problem will become bigger andbigger and this may result in severe disorders in her body which may be irrecoverable in thefuture due to infection. Mavis is a old patient and needs much intensive care because diseases aremore sensitive to the old body. After the check up it was found that her heart rate increased to 92bmp which can cause her heart attack and also her blood pressure went down to 105/70 and thetemperature of the body went to 380.0 C. All these are the symbols of silent heart attack in whichthe patient has very less time for the survival. The health care professional has shown the ethics of Autonomy in which the same askedfor the wash when the wound started bleeding by trying to persuade her but the ultimate decisionis of the patient whether to accept the proposal or not (Cardillo, 2019) . The patients have theirown beliefs as well as values which must be respected by the professional. As per this ethic themedical practitioner must provide the best advice for the betterment of the patient.Beneficence is another ethic in which the patient must be given the best possible advicefor the treatment in which all the recommendation to the patients must be given considering allthe rules and procedures. The professionals must possess all the required skills and also requiredknowledge. Updated training must be given to the practitioner in which the training should be1
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