Ethical and Legal Considerations in Nursing and Healthcare

NURSING AND HEALTH
CARE

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Nursing and health care plays a major role in protecting as well as curing the lives of
many. 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 drug
addiction. In which someone is giving her drugs which js causing her hear rate to increase and
blood 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. She
removes the dressing from the wound and the area starts bleeding. When I tried to help her by
washing her she says that I don't need help.
Main Body
ETHICS
It is the ethic of any doctor or care taker in the hospital to first treat the patient in the
emergency case and then go for any legal issue which is hindering the patient. Here in the case
Mavis's condition normal but in the morning the condition was abnormal in which her behaviour
changed outstandingly and surprisingly (O'Rourke, Thompson and McMillan. 2019). Mavis must
be treated well irrespective of whatever issue otherwise the problem will become bigger and
bigger and this may result in severe disorders in her body which may be irrecoverable in the
future due to infection. Mavis is a old patient and needs much intensive care because diseases are
more sensitive to the old body. After the check up it was found that her heart rate increased to 92
bmp which can cause her heart attack and also her blood pressure went down to 105/70 and the
temperature of the body went to 380.0 C. All these are the symbols of silent heart attack in which
the patient has very less time for the survival.
Beneficence is another ethic in which the patient must be given the best possible advice
for the treatment in which all the recommendation to the patients must be given considering all
the rules and procedures. The professionals must possess all the required skills and also required
knowledge. Updated training must be given to the practitioner in which the training should be
given using the latest equipments and latest material must be used for the treatment of the
patients. Here in the case it is seen that the professional is proficient and the proficiency can be
seen in the regular checking of the patient and regularly taking care of the patient.
The health care professional has shown the ethics of Autonomy in which the same asked
for the wash when the wound started bleeding by trying to persuade her but the ultimate decision
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