STUDENTS ARE BEING ALLOWED TO WORK IN THE HOSPITAL UNSUPERVISED LOOK AT THE RESULTS
The nurses’ strike is on its 35th day today. Hospital administrators are feeling the heat. They want to keep the services running uninterrupted and without the nurses on duty, this presents a serious headache. This has made some careless administrators to seek the services of student nurses.
Student nurses need to be supervised in order for them to gain the necessary skills and attitude for them to be professional nurses. The act of letting student nurses attend to patients is very unprofessional. These students are putting lives of patients under their care at grave risk. The direct action of these student nurses has led to loss of life. In one incident, a student administered a whole 60 mmol of soluble insulin to a diabetic patient before checking the blood sugar first. Unfortunately the patient succumbed to hypoglycemia. In another sad incident, a student nurse administered oral morphine intravenously leading to a serious anaphylactic reaction. These are just some of the incidences that shows a worrying trend among administrators under pressure to keep services running.
It is high time the nursing council of Kenya cracks down on hospitals and institutions allowing inexperienced students attend to patients without supervision. Students should only work under supervision in order for them to get necessary skills and confidence. Anyone allowing student nurses to attend to patients without supervision should be held accountable for their actions and their practicing licenses cancelled.
Student nurses need to be supervised in order for them to gain the necessary skills and attitude for them to be professional nurses. The act of letting student nurses attend to patients is very unprofessional. These students are putting lives of patients under their care at grave risk. The direct action of these student nurses has led to loss of life. In one incident, a student administered a whole 60 mmol of soluble insulin to a diabetic patient before checking the blood sugar first. Unfortunately the patient succumbed to hypoglycemia. In another sad incident, a student nurse administered oral morphine intravenously leading to a serious anaphylactic reaction. These are just some of the incidences that shows a worrying trend among administrators under pressure to keep services running.
It is high time the nursing council of Kenya cracks down on hospitals and institutions allowing inexperienced students attend to patients without supervision. Students should only work under supervision in order for them to get necessary skills and confidence. Anyone allowing student nurses to attend to patients without supervision should be held accountable for their actions and their practicing licenses cancelled.
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