Assignment: Professional Development Exercises : Read the case study presented at the end of Chapter 17 (Guido, p. 362) Was the nurse negligent for unlocking the bath-room door and allowing Judy to...

Running Head: LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN NURSING    1
LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN NURSING     7
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISES
(LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN NURSING)
Table of Contents
Chapter 17    3
The negligence of the nurse in the context of unlocking the bathroom door and Judy showering by herself    3
The lowering of the standard of care by the nurse to keep the bathroom door while the unlocked while the psychiatrist’s visit    3
In this instance, the level of significance of the hospital policy and procedures    3
Own decision on this case    4
Chapter 18    5
The negligence of the nurse while giving advice on Mr. Gonzales’ health condition    5
The level by which the nurse exceeded her practice while giving advice to the patient    5
The justification for the nurse’s instruction to Mr. Gonzales to immediately visit the local emergency center    5
Own decision on this case and its liability    6
Chapter 20    7
The standard of care for the mentioned patients    7
The manner of action of the prudent nurse despite the hourly check-up unmentioned in the nursing care plan    7
The lawsuit primarily centering on the surgeon    7
Personal decision on this case    7
References    8
Chapter 17
The negligence of the nurse in the context of unlocking the bathroom door and Judy showering by herself
The nursing staff in a healthcare organization is endowed with the duty to constantly check the movements of the psychiatric patients and keep them under supervision. In the case study mentioning the deteriorating mental condition of Judy accompanied by her suicidal tendency, the nurse has been negligent in three aspects. Firstly, the nurse, despite knowing the mental health condition of Judy without sufficient supervision unlocked the door. Rabelo-Silva et al. (2017) have stated that nurses must keep the patients suffering from suicidal tendency under constant supervision. In contrary to that, the second error committed by the nurse is not being present at the very moment when the psychiatrist came to meet Judy. Thirdly, the nurse has been incautious enough to consider that Judy, who has suicidal ideation, such as the normal people can bath without supervision.
The lowering of the standard of care by the nurse to keep the bathroom door while the unlocked while the psychiatrist’s visit
Maxwell (2018) has mentioned that the safety of the patients is the most significant responsibility of the nurses. The optimum standard of care that has to be maintained by the nurses in healthcare sector is prevention of violence and accident along with supervising the movement of psychiatric patients inclined to commit suicide or self-harm. Thus, it becomes obvious that the nurse exemplified an act, which is below the standard of care by leaving the bathroom door unlocked and engaging herself in the nurses’ station, while Judy remained unobserved. The nurse abandoned her nursing responsibility, which accounted for the suicidal attempt of Judy, resulting in a severe brain injury. The standard of care has not just been gravely compromised with and lowered; it also led to a serious accident of a psychiatric patient suffering from depression.
In this instance, the level of significance of the hospital policy and procedures
In case of accident caused to patients by negligence of the nursing staff, the hospital procedures and policies have a greater role to play. Boyd et al. (2017) mentioned that hospital, in case of accidents and injury to the patients, takes all the necessary measures to not just compensate for the accident and provide the necessary treatment to the ailing patients, it also takes stringent steps against the nursing staff. Likewise, in this case...