Professional Transition Research Paper 2022

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Professional Transition
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1. An RN you work with shares with you that a peer graduate RN has posted on
Instagram comments relating to a difficult patient being cared for on the unit you both work.
She knows you are friends with this person and asks you to discuss their professional
responsibility with them. Share the ethical principles that are present in this situation and how
you would professionally address these with your peer graduate RN?
Introduction
A registered nurse (RN) is obliged to observe professional nursing standards and ethics.
Some ethical principles are present in the situation and how professionalism comes into play.
Using contemporary technologies is clinical practice requires observing and upholding high
professional standards. Various professional standards and codes of ethics provide ways through
which professional nurses should behave towards, patients, clients and other practitioners within
the work place and outside practice. Besides, the professional standards highlight various ways
an RN should behave when passing out information regarding workplace, clients or other health
practitioners. Therefore, the nursing practitioners should use available communication
technologies with care, appropriately and without contradicting ethical standards of clinical
practice. In this situation, an RN shared comments on Instagram about how a patient is difficult
to care for. The following paper provides a critical analysis of various ethical principles that form
part of the situation and how it should be addressed.
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Social media such as Instagram acts as informal communication technologies that nursing
practitioners use for personal and unprofessional use. Ethical principles and codes guide all
nursing practitioners on sharing or using some of the contemporary technologies. The transition
from grandate nurse to clinical practice requires observing various codes of conduct, ethical
requirement and nursing standards of practice. The literature provides various information on the
ethical principles that all nurses are expected to observe in the course of clinical practice. These
ethical standards consider the current contemporary technologies that are also available for
nurses (Epstein & Turner, 2015).
Confidentiality is a key professional nursing code of conduct
According to nursing and people's code of ethics, nursing being a care giver should
record patient information with uttermost confidentiality required. According to Collier, Son,
Nguyen, and Omg (2011), confidentiality paly a role when nursing practitioners are using current
communication tools such as social media. Social media bridges several ethical standards based
on its informality when communicating with other people. The information about the client or
patient regarding care given to the patient requires confidentiality and should not be share with
the public. The conduct of the registered nurse was unprofessional and contradicts the ethical
code of the registered nurse of Australia. Besides, being a graduate registered nurse one of the
requirements for the transition into full practice entails understanding the code of ethics and this
is not evidenced by the registered nurse (Condon & Hegge, 2011).
Patient right to privacy
All patients have the right to privacy and sharing the information on the difficult patient
that is under your care contradicts personal information code. According to Shahriari,

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Mohammadi, Abbaszadeh, and Bahrami (2013), patients have their right to being treated with
care and all privacy as required. The nursing practitioners are not supposed to share patient
information without their consent as this bridge the right to privacy. This is prone to cause
inconvenience and embarrassment to both the patient and their families. Moreover, information
that a registered nurse obtains in the course of practice should remain within the professional
confine without disclosing to any other pe rson (Berglund, Anne-Cathrine & Randers, 2010).
Professional behaviors
All registered nurses are entitled to show professional behavior that is characterized by
respect, honesty, integrity, and compassion. Clinical practice in contemporary communication is
challenging and practitioners need to show uttermost professionalism when sharing information
on social media (Östman, Näsman, Eriksson & Nyström, 2019). The nursing practitioners failed
to show the professionalism that is required of a nurse. Respect for the patient or their
information is a fundamental requirement for professionalism. Nursing standard 3.4 provides the
accountability obligation of a registered nurse that is expected to remain accountable for their
behaviors and actions. Also, the nursing professional behavior code requires that registered
nurses show compassion to the client as oppose to exposing the difficulty of caring for patients.
Legal compliance, on the other hand, requires all nursing practitioners not to participate in
unlawful behavior. Unmerited complain about patients may lead to the unprofessionalism of a
registered nurse (Gastmans, 2013).
Use of social media
Nursing communication is another important ethical principle that comes into play in this
situation. Effective communication as cited within the nursing professional code and ethics