Nursing Assignment: Person Centered Care and Ethical Code of Conducts for Aboriginal Patients

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NURSIUNG ASSIGNMENT CASAE STUDY
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Introduction
Aboriginal patients should be provided with equal treatment and care like other
communities as it is their fundamental right. This assignment will discuss the case scenario of
Raelene Ward, a 40-year-old aboriginal women who was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and
was provided care in a healthcare facility, where she had to face several disparities compared to
other patients. Further, the theories, which will be used in this scenario, are person centered care,
code of ethics for nursing professionals, the national safety and quality health service and will
discuss the Erikson’s 8-stage framework (Sherwood, 2013). This assignment will discuss the
case of Raelene and will discuss the theories and frameworks, the communication scenario with
effective and ineffective care and application of the chosen theory on the case scenario and will
explain the partnering in care strategy in maintaining the patient experience with chosen case
scenario.
Identification of the relevant theories and framework/s
The relevant theories that could be applied in the case study of Raelene Ward are person
centered care and family centered care for the patient and ethical code of conducts for the
nursing professionals (Shields et al., 2012). As per the responses of Raelene Ward, after she was
diagnosed with gestational diabetes, healthcare professionals started proving her with insulin,
with any further testing or identification of other medication that can improve her condition.
Besides this, she was also not provided with informed care regarding the insulin as she was
associated with care profession (Kuo et al., 2012). This incident indicates towards the need of
person centered care as well as violation of nursing ethical codes hence, these theories will be
applied. Besides these, the Erikson’s 8 step model will be employed in this scenario which

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describes the factors such as trust against mistrust, autonomy against doubt, initiative against
guilt, identity against role confusion, inferiority against industry, generativity against stagnation,
intimacy against isolation and integrity against despair (Hudon et al., 2012). This framework was
applicable in the scenario as the care process of Raelene Ward had several loopholes related to
ethical and clinical aspect that created a conflict between the mentioned parameters mentioned in
the above-mentioned framework (Barry & Edgman-Levitan, 2012).
Analysis of the communication scenario
While analyzing the communicated scenario by the patient two aspect of healthcare
process could be identified such as effective care and ineffective care, both of which are positive
and negative aspects of patient care process (Kitson et al., 2013). Effective care is the scenario,
in which the healthcare professionals met the patient needs and provides the healthcare
professionals with proper educational and practical training so that while conducting the process
holistic care could be achieved (Eroju et al., 2013). On the other hand, ineffective care process is
associated with unmet patient needs, inefficient care professionals who are unable to improve
patient condition with their ineffective interventions. In this case, study of Raelene Ward, an
aboriginal woman, was diagnosed with gestational diabetes and due to which she had to be
admitted in the healthcare facility where she faced both effective and ineffective care (Tuffaha,
Gordon & Scuffham, 2014).
The care process is determined as ineffective care because being an aboriginal woman
and a nursing professional suffering from gestational diabetes, the patient was treated differently
from other patients in the healthcare facility (Lee, Tsao & Hsueh, 2013). The patient herself
accepted the fact that she was neither informed about her condition of ailment nor educated