Experience is working night shift in labor-delivery unit

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Case: A senior nurse with 20 years of experience is working the night shift in the Labor and Delivery unit. She has been having problems at home. One night her peers notice that she has been gone from the unit for a long time. They are keeping an eye on her one patient in labor. After an hour, one of the nurses goes looking for the missing nurse. She is found in the hospital stairwell curled up in the fetal position. The nurse is escorted back to the unit and the shift ends shortly thereafter. The L&D nurses advise the manager the next day of what occurred. The senior nurse takes a medical leave of absence. When she returns things seem better with her mental health, but then one night she goes missing from the unit again. Her peers cover the patients and report the situation to the manager.

Questions:

1. Who are the key individuals involved?

2. If you were the nurse involved . . . what did you do or would you do?

3. What guidance can be provided by the application of ethical principles/theory and the nursing code of ethics to this specific situation?

4. Identify resources available to nurses to assist and support them through this type of situation.

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