Question

A nurse is caring for a patient who had an indwelling urethral catheter removed 24-hours ago and had been urinating without difficulty.  The patient reports feeling like the bladder is full but cannot void.  The nurse scanned the patient's bladder finding 525 mls of urine present and inserts a straight catheter to empty the bladder. The actions by the nurse demonstrated which of the following?

		process rights
		autonomy
		procedural injustice
		malpractice

Answer 1

A nurse can do a bladder scan which are usually portable type.There should be a clear indication for doing this like post op cases,post catheter removal,urethral structure,neurogenic bladder,incontinence ,retension,etc. Here the nurse after assessing the patient can do the scan and find out the amount of routine and take appropriate measures to empty the bladder.This enables a nurse to assess whether there is any retention after catheter removal.This is an act of process rights and cannot be procedural injustice because nurses are allowed to do this procedure.Here the nurse cannot make a self authorisation without right rational so it cannot be a autonomy, Malpractice is an act of doing wrong to patient.

Ans:process ri