Case Study about nursing profession

Running head : Case study about nursing profession

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May 19th , 2010

Introduction

Nursing is a profession that involves empowering people in need and helping them achieve independence . This could be physical , social or their psychological needs . The vast knowledge of the nurse practitioners enables him /her to be able to make a diagnosis and administer most ordinary and various chronic diseases , either alone or as part of a health care group . This should be incorporated with correct understanding of the fundamental nursing ethics and principles as

they aid the nurses in examining major approaches in the management of a person suffering in a clinical setting . This will review a case study for Judy , a patient who was diagnosed from Pelvic Inflammatory disease and ended up being diagnosed with ec pregnancy

Analysis of the Scenario

The scenario involves Judy , whose provisional diagnosis was Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID ) who attended a ward but unfortunately found no admitting beds available in the gynecology ward . This scenario has tabled us with the needed facts that equip us with some unethical practices and nursing legal issues that are facing our today nursing practitioners . This scenario helps to show that some unintended circumstance in a clinical setting results from a lack of legal practices that result from unethical practices of the nursing practitioners . The scenario shows that one-step of legal disobedience leads to the next , and thus resulting to adverse effects to the patient This is shown through the improper handling of Judy...