A Reflection on Nurse Care and Values Report 2022

Running head: NURSING CARE 1
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Title: A Reflection on Nurse Care and Values

NURSING CARE 2
Part A
As a nurse I am under obligation to give care patients based on ethical issues. I therefore
need ethical knowledge to undertake my duties appropriately while giving legal, safe and ethical
care to my patients. Ethics teach that all patients should be best taken care of regardless of their
condition, colour, age, ethnicity, mental health or any other factor. Being a nurse, I know I am
responsible for my actions and my core responsibility is to ensure that all my clients are satisfied
with my service. I therefore have to function based on my values which are based on the nursing
ethics. My values form the basis on which my strategies, goals and actions are judged.

NURSING CARE 3
Part B
A patient was admitted in the hospital with schizophrenia and other medical
complications like confusion and hyponatremia. The patient and his next of kin had been
explained that the patient would be put to fluid restriction of 750 ml per day due to his condition.
The patient however (due to his mental condition) persistently demanded more fluids and
threatened to create a disturbance to the whole hospital if his demand were not met. One of the
nurses requested to offer one on one care for this patient. I too was involved in his personal
hygiene. As I was undertaking my duties on the patient, he began crying. After some time of
questioning, he told me that he wanted to be moved out of that hospital because five days ago the
nurse caring for him slapped, pinched him and also occasionally used abusive words on him. He
said that after the return of his son, he would demand to be transferred to another hospital. I
apologized on behalf of the nurse and also reassured him that would not happen again. I reported
this to the nurse as we filled the Incident Report Form.
What?
From the scenario above, a schizophrenic patient, who happens to be having confusions
due to his metabolic disturbances made an allegation of physical assault against a nurse.
Considering his mental condition and the fact that the incident happened five days ago, raises
questions whether the patient is capable of raising such allegations. This incident cannot be
verified at this stage. The analysis and solution to this incident revolved around my reflection on
the action I was to take and if my action and judgement would be right or needed improvement. I
was the recipient of the allegation and having heard it I tried to understand and make sense out of
it (Weis & Schank, 2009). I was aware of how serious the allegation was if it was true and also