Professional Conduct: Case Study Analysis

Professional Conduct
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INTRODUCTION
Professional conduct is referred as the area of regulation of members of professional bodies,
acting under contractual or statutory powers. The code of professional conduct includes
principles that directs professional interactions. Two complementary sections are consisting in
the code: professional ideals and professional obligations. This report is based on the case study
in which a tribunal has disqualified or ban nurse from re-applying for or registration in aged care
settings for 5 years. This report consists of three parts. Part A covers summary of the main events
that takes place in case. Part B discusses about what is considered to be crucial professional
conduct aspect of case study and its relation to code of conduct as well as importance for nursing
practice and quality of patient care. Part C covers discussion of outcomes of case study, the way
case relates to role of NMBA and the main lessons to be learnt from the case study.
MAIN BODY
Part A: Summary & context
The provided case study is about 'Tribunal bans nurse from aged care for five years'. In the
provided case study, a nurse was disqualified by the tribunal from re-applying for working in
aged care services for 5 years for her over involved in affairs of elderly patient and benefited
from his will. She was disqualified because of gone beyond the limits of professional boundaries
with elderly patient. In year 2015, Ms. Abha Kumar worked as a nurse unit manager in aged care
facility. Mr. Lionel Cox was admitted in the facility for respite care. After his admission, Ms.
Kumar learned that Mr. Cox had no family, he had his own home and had not made a will. At
that time, unknown to the witnesses, the will named Ms. Kumar as sole beneficiary and executor
of Mr. Leonel estate. Due to some natural causes, Mr. Cox died in august. In your 2016, the
house was sold by Ms. Kumar for over 1000000 dollars. After investigating about the all case,
AHPRA referred Ms. Kumar to Victorian civil and administrative tribunal on September 2018
where she was found to be engaged in professional misconduct which was inconsistent with be a
proper and fit person to hold registration in nursing by failing to manage the conflict of interest
appropriately in which acquire benefit from will of Mr. Cox in circumstances where she knew
earlier to his death that he named as beneficiary, over involvement in affairs of Mr. Cox and
feeling to practice the nursing profession in reflective way.
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