The impaired nurse can affect the quality of care
by:
- Providing poor nursing care and medical errors
- Documentation errors
- Inattentiveness leads to mistakes
- Her mood swings will lead to harsh behaviour towards
patients
- Less tolerance will make patients insecure
- Taking long breaks will disturb the patients routine
- Due to shakiness and tremors nurse couldn't perform fine motor
activities
- Impaired nurse losses the balance while handling the patients
and risk for fall
- Due to sleepiness nurse couldn't notice warning signs of
patients condition
- Poor judgement leads wrong decisions
- Impaired nurse sometimes uses patients medicine for herself and
skip or give some other medication for patient leads to poor
prognosis
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