Question

1. Explain Informed consent and its process. Answer:

2. List at least 5 legal responsibilities in Nursing. Answer:

3. As you come on duty, you check your client’s chart and notice that he received an injection of Demerol 100 mg at 2:00 PM and again at 3:30 PM on the same day. Two different nurses administered these injections. Administration of the medication is to be given every 4 hours. a. What action would you take and why? b. What legal implication apply to this situation? c. Has a crim been committed? Why or why not?

4. As nursing student, you are working part-time in a hospital. A client there is being discharged in a couple of days and asks you on a date next week. (Assume you are single and find the client attractive.) a. How do you respond? Why? b. What are legal implications of dating a client?

Answer 1

1- Informed conssent is a process of communication betweem the patient and healthcare provider that often leads to agreement or permission for care ,treatment or services.Every patient has the right to get information and ask questions before procedure and treatments.This workes on the principles ,such as describing the proposed intervention,emphasising the patient's role in decision making,discussing alternatives to the proposed intervention and also discussing the risks,and evaluate patients understanding.To document that informed consent has been given for a procedure ,healthcare organizations have used paper based consect forms on which the risk and the benefits of procedure are noted,and is signed by both patient and the clinician.The process of informed consent includes  

• The patient's ability to make a decision.
• Expalnation of information needed to make decision.
• Patien's understanding of the medical information.
• Patient's voluntry decision to get treatment.

In an informed consent must include these informations such as diagnossi of the patient,name and purpose of the treatment,benefits and risk of the procedure,alternative procedure.After getting relevent informations only one person want to sign it.

2-Nurses have to follow some laws and regulations in nursing proffession.Some of the legal responsibilities of a nurse are

1. Identify legal issues affecting the client such as refusing treatment.
2. Identify and manage the client's valubles according to facility
3. Recognise limitations of self and seek assistance.
4. Educate client
5. Report client conditions as required by law.
6. Report unsafe practice of healthcare personnel and intervene as appopriate.
7. Provide care within the legal scope of practice.

3-Medication error happens in this situtaion,it means any difference between what the patient received or was supposed to receive and what the prescriber intended in the orginal order.These errors can be identify another nurse or physician,pharamacist and other health care proffessionals.When any error discovered the priority must be patient safety.The patient must be assessd for any change of status.A physician must be notified and allow the oppertunity to order medications or treatment that might counteract the error.The error must be documented.If an error made an incident ,event or occurance report must be completed.The consequence of an error is often dependent on its severity and the patient's response.

4-the nurse patient relatioship is a proffessional one it shouldn't be used as a platform for a personal romantic,bussiness or financial involvement.Dating is legally and ethically improper.So please refuse that offer in a tactile way.