Create a PowerPoint
presentation based on the following case studies.
Citation for each slide to the bottom right corner of the
each slide.
Read the case study presented at the end of Chapter 12 (Guido, p. 218)
and answer the following questions:
• Did the facility have sufficient evidence to suspend the nurse?
• How should the testimony of the other nurses in the unit affect the outcome
of this case?
• What additional questions should the institution address before the court
rules in this case?
• How would you have ruled in this case?
Text book Reference: Guido, G. W. (2019). Legal & Ethical Issues in Nursing (7th
Edition). Pearson Education (US). https://bookshelf.vitalsource.com/reader/books/9780134714028/pageid/234
Case study
A nurse had been working in a critical care unit for more than 25 years,
gaining respect for her competence and dedi-cation, before suspicions began to
gather that she was di-verting narcotics for her own use. The acute care
hospital used a computerized medicine dispensary for enhanced distribution and
better monitoring of narcotics. The dispen-sary unit recorded the nurse’s
personal keypad code and the patient’s data before it could be unlocked and
narcot-ics dispensed. Though the hospital was slowly moving to an
all-electronic charting system, at present the nurses were also required to
document the narcotic usage by handwrit-ing the patient’s name, medication,
time, route, and dosage on a more traditional paper medication administration
re-cord (MAR). Discrepancies were noted between this nurse’s pa-tients’
electronic data for narcotic administration and the handwritten notations made
on the paper record. The nurse was first questioned by her supervisors and then
she was suspended, as they did not find her explanations credible. Her
grievance was upheld by the arbitrator assigned to the case, and the hospital
appealed.
At trial, other nurses from the same unit testified that