CASE STUDY- Unprofessional Conduct in Practice

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CASE STUDY- Unprofessional Conduct in Practice
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Unprofessional conduct is the kind of behaviour that is considered harmful for the
patient seeking medical care (Atkinson & Jones, 2018). The failure to maintain a proper
standard of accepted care by the nurse in a professional area leads to miscommunication and
deterioration of the patient condition, which is unethical for the nursing practice. There are
specific steps of maintaining a professional behaviour in the restricted departments in the
hospitals that needs to be followed for treating a patient are assessment, planning, problem-
solving ability, decision- making, monitoring the patients or the client's condition and finally
evaluating the situation (Ebenezer, 2015). The appointed nurse in any department during the
patient care must follow few registered guidelines under different laws. These can be a code
of ethics, code of conduct. The primary purpose of the below paper is to identify the
unprofessional acts conducted by a nurse depending upon a case a study and reflecting an
impression upon the situation.
Five acts of unprofessional conduct
The five unprofessional behaviours that were identified in this case are- patient safety,
quality of care, documentation bridging, lack of clinical skills and patient-centred care.
Nurses are selected health-care expert that enables the community or any patient to achieve
proper care. Unprofessional conduct means an unethical behaviour that is performed by any
health care practitioner during duty (Nortvedt & Vosman, 2014). Here, in this case, the
appointed nurse showed much unfair response. The nurse failed to have precise information
and the entire history of the patient. Initial documentation during admission or pre-operation
is required for better and appropriate caring of the patients admitted in the hospital.
Outlines of the act requires
The patient safety act or law functions to protect admitted patients from unsafe
activity. Different sections fall under this act; these are professional regulation, institutional

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regulation. This law enhances the chance of caring within a hospital area and reduces the
chance of wrong treatment (Canadian Nurses Association, 2015). Quality care is one of the
main aspects in hospitals or care centres; it improves the superiority of care among individual
patients delivering the right treatment (Backhaus et al., 2014). One of the vital steps in
nursing practice is to maintain a clear and proper document about patient history, current
medications and also providing primary care (Adhikari et al., 2014). It enhances the chance
of excellent clinical communication providing an accurate reflection of good practice, which
ultimately leads to better treatment and care towards any individual in acute or suffering from
chronic disease. The nurses must be having proper knowledge about the condition in which
the nurse is registered for caring. Keeping a good knowledge about the medications provided
and also having a bioethics regarding the usage of technologies is essential (Clayton, 2014).
Patient-centred care aims to provide and improve the quality of care, which also reduces the
mortality and morbidity rate in-patient (Sidani & Fox, 2014). Nurses are critical to the
observation and synchronized that reduce such adverse outcomes that arise in healthcare.
Consequences of the acts
The patient safety laws help in minimizing preventable harms towards a patient
during care delivery. This includes all aspects such as treatment plan, effective medications,
and standards for surgery. The quality care plans cover safety, effective care without any
distrustful practices and the capable and timely service to the patients seeking medical help.
The nursing documentation includes calculation, planning, implementation, and giving
appropriate care towards any patient. The personal data and history of medication need to be
considered in the documentation as well because it helps in planning the treatment of the
patient. The nurses must be having proper knowledge about the disease and the interventions
that are to be provided in any patient. The law is helpful in maintaining ethics during practice,
which states that learning skills are essential in treating patients. The act of person-centred