Assignment: Maintain Professional Boundaries In Nurse-Patient Relationships

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Student Name Roxanne Jelinksi
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PNUR 1168 PSYCHOSOCIAL BOUNDARIES ASSIGNMENT
MEETS ABILITY 2C

2C: Maintain professional boundaries in nurse-patient relationships
How do you think you would have reacted if confronted in Catherine’s situation?
Personally I would be embarrassed at the thought of someone questioning my nursing judgment and actions. I am not someone to get confrontational when I know I have made a mistake even a small mistake. I try to be very aware about my actions and how I affect others. I believe I would most likely breakdown emotionally and explain how I had become unintentionally over involved. I would explain I just wanted to help Matt because he reminds me so much of my brother. I also would say that I am having problems with my husband and I felt like I had a good connection with Matt. I just seen a hurting body and soul and just didn’t want him to fall into a greater depression. I would apologize and admit I was wrong and would understand how my little mistakes turned into a huge one. I would apologize and ask how I could make amends and might make a change in departments.
How did Matt’s parents react to the situation? …show more content…

Though they were happy to see his spirits lifted. They soon found out that Catherine had crossed the line and their son suffered the consequences severly. Matt become severly depressed and refused to talk to anyone. Matt’s parents sought a lawayer and wanted Cahterine to take accountability for her actons. I believe they had every right take the legal route they did. Their son not only was vulnerable emotionaly and physically he was underage. Their son was taken advantage of even if Catheirne’s actons were intentional their were painful implications for Matt and his parents. He was left emotionally scareed and needed counseling and had to learn to trust others

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