Question

A patient needs to receive a barium swallow but refuses to swallow the contrast medium. The nurse in charge of the patient takes the cup and forces the patient to drink it. You are an employee and you observe this incident.

• What offense(s) is the nurse committing?
• What are your legal and ethical responsibilities as an employee?
• What kind of rights does the patient have?

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Answer:

According to the principles of psychiatric nursing, the nurse should avoid physical and verbal force as much as possible. The psychiatric patients show misbehaviors or undesired behaviors, this is due to their mental condition. Most of the patients may not cooperate with medical treatment.

The 10 rights of medication administration also provide the right to a patient to refuse the drug administration. During such conditions, we should try to convince the patient by providing health education or gaining the trust of the patient. Most of the psychiatric patients show the symptom of suspiciousness. So firstly we want to gain the trust of the patient.

So here the nurse offense those 2 principles or right of a patient to refuse the drug. So legal actions can an institution can be taken on the basis of patients complaints.