Question

1. As the team leader on the floor where you practice nursing, you are covering another RN’s group of patients while she is away at lunch. As you make your rounds, you notice her LPN (who is not certified for IV medication administration) administering a syringe of fluid via an IV line to a patient.
2. What data in the scenario are pertinent?
3. Is there a nursing practice violation? If so, what is it?
4. What regulations and/or standards address these issues?
5. How does licensure and certification apply to this case study?
6. What purpose would an incident report play in this scenario?

Answer 1

-The nurse who is not certified was administering a syringe of fluid via an IV line to a patient. this scenario is pertinent.

- Yes, it is a violation in nursing practice. Without completing registration as a nurse she is not considered as a nurse. Without a licence of particular country she can't work as a nurse in the hospital.

-Licensure required to practice as a nurse .

- Nurse should follow the code of ethics .

- Malpractice during professional skill or unreasonable lack of skill in professional duties or illegal or immoral conduct that results in injury to death of a client involves violation of standards of nursing practice.

- Tort is different from crime , but a serious tort can be tried as both civil and criminal action.

-Nurses are responsible for their own acts, also employers may be held responsible under doctrine of respondent superior, when responsibility is shared , nursing actions must lie within scope of employment and legislation relating to nursing practice.

- A narrative description of the incident report is needed.Everything about patient should be record in the report, because a complete medical information about the patient, treatment, problems. It helps to know complete details of care given to patient also knows about the nurse.