The Registered Nurse

The key reason for this Act is to secure the health and providing so as to well of individuals from public in general, for systems to guarantee that health experts are capable and fit to hone their callings. According to section 16 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act (2003), the RN needs to have met the provisions therein and demonstrated fitness for registration. According to the Act, She or she should have satisfied the responsible authority that he or she is able to communicate effectively for the purposes of practising within the scope of practice before being given limelight for practising his profession. The inability of the Registered Nurse (RN) to communicate in this particular scenario since his speech was slurred

The registered nurse in our case did not keenly assess the blood pressure of the patient Mr. B. Even at a point of totally not able to assess the patient, the Act provides in standard 4.5 that the nurse would have sought assistance from colleagues in a situation where the nurse lacked the knowledge. The nurse would have swallowed the bitter pill of pride rather than risking and endangering the patient (Code of Conduct, 2012).
The nurse coming to workplace wearing sandal, with untidy uniform is total misconduct and against the provision of maintaining confidence in nursing profession. In addition the nursing practice should not be affected by consumption of alcohol as stipulated in principle 8, standard

Social media are web technologies that permit individuals to interface impart and connect progressively to share and trade data. This incorporates Facebook, websites, Twitter, email etc. (Social Media and Electronic Communication, 2012). The nurse taking his particular case and excuse to media compromises the confidentiality and privacy of the patient. The privacy of the patient was breached by the instance of the nurse taking the matter to social platforms. The standard provides that the information gotten in treating the patient should be treated with utmost confidentiality and be used for professional purpose only (Social Media and Electronic Communication,