Problem Solving with the Reference of a Case Study

Running head: PROBLEM SOLVING WITH THE REFERENCE OF A CASE STUDY
PROBLEM SOLVING WITH THE REFERENCE OF A CASE STUDY
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PROBLEM SOLVING WITH THE REFERENCE OF A CASE STUDY1
Question1.
Examples from the case study
The case study is all about the patient named Daisy Mayers, aged 85 years, admitted
to a hospital due to chest infection and bilateral lower lobe pneumonia. She fractured her
right-wing of the right femur after admitting to the hospital. After shifting to the respiratory
department, she was anxious and repeatedly calling out her daughter’s name and removed her
oxygen mask, as there was no nurse to take care of her. The medical assistants attended her
rarely, and as the lack of surveillances, she fell from her bed. She got laceration on her
forehead, and her right leg was rotated, but a fellow patient reported the entire condition.
According to the orthopaedic reports, her right neck of femur was fractured, and she had
undergone a surgery. Her surgery was not satisfactory enough as she was uncomfortable
while walking and felt severe pain during movement. The described incidents can be stated as
outcomes of negligence and breach of Nursing standards such as article 7.1 and 7.3 of
standard 7,all articles of the standard 6 and standard 5 (Lyons & Bliss, 2018). Nurses
observed that her hip joint wound was not properly cured, and the distinct odour was found.
Breached Standards
National health and safety standard are implemented for the betterment of health care
services, and medical assistance are bound to maintain the standards. From the given case
study, it can be said that the National Safety and security standards are violated in several
instances. Clinical governance and medication safety standards were breached when the
medical assistance observed that the regular medications were not mentioned or recorded in
the medical chart of Mrs Mayers(Healy, 2016 )

PROBLEM SOLVING WITH THE REFERENCE OF A CASE STUDY2
Practice issues demonstrate a breach to the National Health and Safety
Standards
After she was shifted to the respiratory ward, her bed was far from the nurses’
stations, which is an example of a breach of communication for safety, comprehensive care,
and partnering with consumers. This whole incident depicts several examples of standard
breaching. The breached standards for the event are clinical governance, communication
for safety, medication safety, blood management, and recognizing and responding the
acute deterioration (Beament et al., 2016). The described incidents can be stated as
outcomes of negligence and breach of national standards such as clinical governance,
recognizing and responding to acute deterioration (Waring et al., 2016). Nurses observed
that her hip joint wound was not properly cured, and the distinct odour was found. The case
study shows several challenges faced by the patient due to the lack of care and maintenance
of the rules. Here it can be observed that the hospital authority and the medical assistants
have breached the standard of communication for safety as they did not take proper measure
to resolve the problem regarding surveillance of the patient (Sun et al., 2017). Medical
attorney of the patient, which was the patient’s daughter, was concerned for her but due to
lack of the standard of partnering with consumers and medication safety. According to the
national standard of health and safety, 2011, standard regarding preventing falls and harm
for falls is also breached as the patient suffered after she fell off his bed due to lack of
surveillance.