What are your immediate responsibilities with regard to your safety, your client’s safety and the safety of others, in that order? Why is the order of safety important? Explain the precautionary principle and why, or why not, it would be followed in this situation.

Professional Expectations: Consent, Confidentiality, Privacy

1) QUESTION: What Would You Do?  (Mandatory Reporting)

You are a nurse working in a busy downtown hospital in the ER. A client is brought into the ER with a gunshot wound. You know that the legislation says that it is mandatory to report gunshot wounds.

You are also aware that nurses have a professional duty to maintain confidentiality. What would you do? What are the implications of mandatory reporting? Post the reason and rational for your response.

Infection Prevention and Control, and Pandemic Planning

2) QUESTION: You are a nurse in a busy emergency department. It is November, and an unaccompanied man, in his sixties, arrives at the triage station. He is walking but obviously unsteady.

He presents with a cough and fever of unknown origin. He is lethargic and has difficulty breathing, or answering your questions. You suspect he has influenza, but cannot rule out COVID-19.

What are your immediate responsibilities with regard to your safety, your client’s safety and the safety of others, in that order? Why is the order of safety important? Explain the precautionary principle and why, or why not, it would be followed in this situation.

References need to be at least 5years old. Need to include CNO (college of nurse of Ontario), RNAO, and CAN references/articles.

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