Assessment about Nursing Assignment 2022

Running head: NURSING ASSIGNMENT
NURSING ASSIGNMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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NURSING ASSIGNMENT
Sheila is one of the most efficient grade nurses as per her results in the grade course in terms of
the ethics of nursing. Thus, it has been seen that she has been confused and stressed about the
decision of the doctor and her role in the course of obtaining consent from the patient about her
surgery. The case has highlighted that the patient is from German origin and admitted for the fall
injury and the severe effect of fall on the hip. The assessment of the doctors stated that the
patient needs immediate hip replacement surgery, and thus, Sheila needs to collect the signature
of the patient on the informed consent form. However, the issue here is the patient is a German
speaker and could not be able to understand English, and there is no translator available. Hence,
Sheila took help from the daughter of the patient. However, Sheila knows a little amount of
German or understands the language a little bit, and she finds out that the daughter of the patient
did not tell her all the required information. Based on the doctor provided aid on this context,
Sheila took help from the daughter of the patient. Thus it can be stated that according to the CNO
standards of practice the ethics of the patient care is breached as the standards state that the care
should be provided with proper knowledge providence to the patient and the family members
(Cno.org, 2019). Moreover, the professional standards have also been breached as there was no
translator was present, and the family member was used for the translating process. It has been
seen that the information was modified or manipulated before informing the patient. Hence, it
can be stated as an ethical regulation breaching. The patient is an 87-year-old woman, and the
surgery can be harmful to her as well. On this context, the patient should be informed properly,
and the consent of the patient should be taken in the appropriate way (Epstein & Turner, 2015).
Based on the case where it can be stated that the process of the care for the patient is breaching
the health care ethics in many ways, thus affecting the probable health outcome as well. Sheila
here faces the ethical dilemma as the doctor is pressurising her for taking the consent from the