word limit for the essay is 1800

word limit for the essay is 1800. Scenario Description Sarah is a first-year undergraduate nursing student who is currently on her first clinical placement at the end of her first year, and she has been placed in a dementia unit at a nursing home. Along with her RN buddy ‘Julie’, they have been allocated 4 residents. Julie has asked Sarah to do the following:

1. Whilst unsupervised, Sarah is to collect one of the patients’ medications for the day from the treatment room, and without being checked by Julie, administer the oral tablet medications to the patient. Sarah was then asked to sign for the medications on the patient’s drug chart on behalf of Julie.

 

2. Sarah was instructed by Julie not to do a set of vitals on the patient before giving the prescribed medication.

 

3. When the patient asks what the medications are for, do not to tell the patient the truth, instead tell them a lie.

 

Later that day, Sarah and Julie were caring for a confused patient that had become aggressive. Julie decided to put that patient back into bed because they were being too “difficult”. Julie proceeded to do the following:

 

1. Once the patient was in bed, Julie raised the bed side rails up, and tighten the bed sheets over the patient so that they couldn’t get out of bed. The patient looked at Julie and said, “ouch that’s too tight”.

 

2. Said to the patient in a stern and raised voice “don’t you get out of that bed or else!” Assignment Instructions: In addition to the peer-reviewed articles you use as evidence for your ideas, as an example, you may wish to refer to the following documents in your essay to support your statements and discussion: The NMBA code of conduct for Registered Nurses, The National Standards, the scope of practice of a student nurse, and the medication rights for administration.

 

Final Structure of Assignment: You may wish to use the template provided on the essay structure help sheet and the paragraph structure help sheet provided in Moodle under the assessment tab. Please see the course descriptor for the assignment formatting expectations as per Federation University policy

 

Introduction:

 

• Briefly introduce the scenario and its main issues as a summary. • As an introduction to your main assignment topics and discussion points, briefly explain what is significant about the issues in relation to legal and ethical conduct in nursing practice. Main Content Identify and discuss 2 (two) ethical principles that are breached, and 2 (two) legal breaches (4 in total) that have been demonstrated by either the student or the RN in this situation.

You must: • Clearly identify the name and type of breach (ethical or legal) • Explain why it may breach legal standards or codes, or a breach of an ethical principle by referring to specific nursing codes, standards. • Discuss the implications of these breaches for the RN, Student nurse, and the patient, and what the correct actions should have been. Support your ideas by referring to specific codes for from documents such as the NMBA Code of Conduct, Standards of Practice for Registered Nurses, and peerreviewed journal articles.

 

Conclusion • Summarise your main topics and discussion points clearly and concisely • Do not introduce new content or ideas Reference List Provide a comprehensive reference list in APA 7th ed format on a new separate page.

A MINIMUM of 10 references, not more than 7 years old is required, using peer-reviewed academic sources, this is in addition to any published national legislation.