Nursing Practices: Case Study Analysis and Violation of NMBA Standards

Running head: NURSING PRACTICES
Nursing practices
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NURSING PRACTICES
The case study represents health issues of 72 years old woman who was admitted to the
medical ward for three days due to pain and swelling of rheumatoid arthritis, which hindered her
mobility. The next morning a registered nurse called the medical officer and informed about her
urinary frequency. After, Diagnosis, the UTI infection was detected and trimethoprim was
administrated which further deteriorated her condition and she was feeling nauseous and
confused. The next medical officer changed her medication with co-amoxiclav in order to
improve her UTI symptoms. In this context, the health professionals failed to recognize and
manage the health issues, which further led to more medication error. There are certain rules,
regulation, medical protocols, and policies need to be followed by nurse
. According to Sluggett et al. (2017), the first objective of the medication policy is to
ensure the immediate long-term safety of the patient. In the above case study, the registered
nurses failed to provide comfort and accurate patient-centered care. The registered nurse
administrate medication twice without checking interactions which further made the patient
nauseous (Peeters et al., 2017). Moreover, Food and Drug Administration approved
medication guidelines suggested that certain information is necessary for preventing serious
adverse effect and in this context; health professionals lacked that knowledge which further
questioned patient’s safety (Bobo et al., 2016). Moreover, patient decision-making should be
taken into account before administrating any medication, which has a side effect (Peeters et al.,
2017). In this context, no consent had been taken which further questioned the patient’s safety
and violated outright for the patient.
According to Sluggett et al. (2017), registered nurses, practice is patient-centered and
evidence-based with preventive curative and informative care (Gattinoni & Marini, 2015). In
order to be an efficient registered nurse, every nurse should communicate effectively and