During a busy medicine round astaff nurse give the wrong medicine to one of the patient.
It is a simple case of fixing the right face to the wrong name, compounded by not checking the patient name band.
After a moment panic, the staff nurse realizes that the drug was an innocenr vitamin and as the patient has not noticed, he/she decides that a 'least said soonest mended' approach would be prudent. The incident was not reported.
Does the patient have a right to know what has happened to him?? OR
would he have more pease of mind if he does not??
TO LIE OR NOT NOT LIE???
Do not lie,because patient right to know the truth,and nurses should honesty in medicine.
ReplyDeleteIf providing truthful information to a patient is a matter of judgment, mistakes are bound to be made. If the information itself is limited and the amount to be disclosed must be determined by the context of each case, then inevitably there will be inadequacies and failures. It is one thing to fail, to make a mistake, to miscalculate what should have been said. It is quite another thing, to set out to lie. It is even worse to adopt a pattern of deception. Failure is one thing, becoming a liar is quite different, something incompatible with being a professional.
patients have a right to know on what is being done on the self. for example, they should know the function of medicine to give them.
ReplyDeletedo not lie...the nurses should be honest in performing tasks, especially in giving medications to patients, if such incidents occur the nurse must inform and apologize to patients and explain what is happening, the nurse should be responsible and ready to accept whatever is going to happen to that patient on offense her earlier given medication...
ReplyDeletedo not lie...this is because patient have the right to know what medication they are taken...1 important thing is nurses must be honest and be responsible on what theng are doing on the patient...
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