NU6125: A 3rd-year student colleague on placement at another hospital informs you that a patient had been allocated: Professional Issues in Nursing Assignment, UCC, Ireland

A 3rd-year student colleague on placement at another hospital informs you that a patient had been allocated by her RN preceptor to monitor and record half-hourly vital signs, required transfer to the intensive care unit, and was critically ill.

Your student colleague confides in you that she had omitted to monitor the vital signs stating that the patient was sleeping and looked comfortable. Instead, your student colleague falsified the patient’s vital signs’ Identify and critically discuss one professional, one disciplinary nursing knowledge and one teaching and learning issues that you would consider relevant to you as a third-year student nurse, specific to this scenario.