PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND
PATIENT SAFETY ESSAY 5
PROFESSIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY AND PATIENT SAFETY ESSAY
5
Identify a case from the NSW Nurses and Midwives’ Board or
AHPRA, HCC or Caselaw website which involved a registered
nurse(s) who had their registration cancelled or suspended for
greater than 6 months due to their involvement in an adverse
event for a patient in their care..
NB: provide the reference and link to the case
THEN
1. What actions/omissions on the part of the Registered Nurse(s)
contributed to the adverse outcome for the patient.
2. Were there any other factors (e.g. systems-based) that
contributed to the adverse outcome for this patient?
3. With reference to the evidence based literature (including
relevant NSW policies) outline the actions that should have been
taken by the Registered Nurse(s) to prevent adverse outcome for
this patient.
NB: The Tracy Baxter case or any of the cases used in tutorial 1 are
NOT able to be used for this assessment and NO marks will be