Nursing Misconduct: A Case Study of Mr. Dixon

HIN2110 Assessment

Nursing misconduct is one of the most common but dangerous thing for health care
worker, performing any kind of misconduct in the health care process might lead to serious
problem and accuser even have to face lawsuit (Senior, 2018). Every health care worker know
their jobs are highly ductile, a small amount of mistake impact patient and risk their lives.
Worker who act as nurse or care provider should follow ethical as well as legal guidelines
provided by the management, misconduct take away all legal rights and licence of health care
professional. It is very clear nursing misconduct risk life of patient who depend on care provider,
misusing drugs, misguiding patient and wrongful treatment bring patient life in danger.
This report is based on Mr. Dixon's case study, this nurse was registered with Rozelle
Holm care home. Mr. Dixon performed certain misconduct in the process of his employment
which almost risked life of patient, due to his carelessness, he was charged with several
allegations which was often proved right and some were proved wrong by the court. Every court
hearing open new doors of misconduct performed by Mr. Dixon, he was accused with certain
misconduct case done by him in his nursing practice. This report will use reflection model to
understand what happened and what are allegation faced by Mr. Dixon, report will find out if
allegation or charges was right or proven wrong by the court in the process.
What:
Registered nurse John Laurence Dixon was suspended from his duty because he
performed misconduct in the employment process, Mr. Dixon was accused of misleading
medicinal process. He fails to keep record of drugs and medicine and fail to perform nursing
according to requirement, Mr. Dixon was charged with certain allegation that was proven right as
well as wrong, some charges rightly raised by the court and somewhere wrong. There is timeline
to understand what exactly happened and what are allegation charged on Mr. Dixon, these are:
TIMELINE
S.no. Date Case Decision
S. No 1 04/09/14 Dixon was charged
with allegation that he
did not call GP
(General practitioner)
after demand raised by
This charge was
proven.

resident family which
lead to serious
problem to the patient
and lead to misconduct
performed by Mr.
Dixon.
S. No 2 27/12/15 Mr. Dixon was
charged with
allegation that he
dispensed the wrong
dose to patient leading
to serious health issue,
wrong dose of
Warfarin was given to
patient with critical
health condition lead
to serious problem and
misconduct performed
by Mr. Dixon.
This charge was
proven.
S. No 3 18/07/16 Mr. Dixon was
charged with
allegation that he
misused weak system
of the care unit to
perform misconduct,
he wrongfully filled
MAR Chart with
wrong information. He
signed that dose was
given to patient but it
This charge was not
proven.