Assignment Task

Objectives

1. Critically apply relevant legal and ethical principles to future healthcare practice situations at the level of a beginning Registered Nurse

2. Interpret, analyse and apply the nursing scope of practice domains in ethico-legal decision making in the provision of safe, effective and holistic person-centred care.

3. Engage in critical discussion and reflective practice which explores the relationship between professional identity, role formation, and compassionate care in role transition and care provision.

4. Examine the professional role of the beginning registered nurse in decision making, and personal and professional formation in digital health systems and organisational structures

Task detail

Consider the next stage of your transition from student to a graduate registered nurse. During this transition, the stages of reality shock can become real. How you, as a graduate registered nurse responds to each situation will prepare you for further challenges. However, this requires resilience, strength, and the capacity to grow as a leader and to self-reflect. Please read the case study below and respond to the questions provided. The case study highlights key areas where moral issues arise.

Case Study

You are a new graduate nurse on a ward and have been assigned to work with a senior nurse who is renowned for her abusive and bullying behaviour towards students and new staff. While she has been welcoming and friendly towards you, you observe that she mistreats another new graduate nurse whose first language is not English. She allocates him a heavier workload than others and withholds important patient information from him so that he looks foolish among his colleagues, and which increases the risk of him making preventable mistakes. She speaks to him rudely, denies him educational opportunities and talks about him with other senior staff. Others also observing her behaviour towards the new graduate say and do nothing to counteract her conduct or to assist the new nurse. You notice that he is distressed, anxious and afraid to ask questions. However, you are not sure how to respond as you want to make a good impression and don`t want to risk the senior nurse retaliating against you and jeopardising your own position.

The essay is to contain the following sections:

a. Introduction - The introduction is an overview of the key areas of your intended discussion.

b. Discuss the moral issues raised in the case study  - This is a self-reflective discussion on the moral issues raised in the case study and can include both a first and third-person discussion. This section must provide a comprehensive discussion of the key areas you feel important as you transition into practice as an RN based on the case study.

C. Considering the case study, how would you respond to the issues identified This section requires a third-person discussion of the reasons you would use to justify your response to the moral issues raised. The section must include the importance, relevance and use of contemporary, scholarly literature relating to reflective practice as a registered nurse.

d. Discuss the moral obligations of co-workers in the case study - In this first and third-person discussion consider the stages of reality shock and how they inform your transition into practice and the need for skills in professional leadership, adaptation, and resilience.

e. Strategies for practice - Based on your discussion above what specific positive strategies, would assist you to transition into practice as a registered nurse in developing and actioning professional leadership skills, resilience and adaptation? This third person discussion must include credible Scholarly literature sources that support the strategies are required and must be correctly referenced.