Reference no: EM133244549

Question - You are the GNA working on the skilled unit. You are assigned 6 residents, and the nurse tells you she needs full vital signs on each resident. Your shift just started, you haven't had breakfast or coffee, and you are agitated that you have to begin working as soon as you enter the facility. You and your colleague, another GNA working on the unit, enter the staff bathroom and make up vital signs for all the residents. 15 minutes later, you hand the vital sign paper to the nurse with all the falsified vital signs. You tell the nurse you will be right back, and you leave the unit and the facility to go to McDonald's. The nurse starts her medication rounds, administering morning medications, including blood pressure medications. She goes to Mr. Jones's room to give him his medications, including his blood pressure pills. She looks at the vital signs you gave her. You wrote Mr. Jones's vital signs as elevated as 156/93. The nurse administers the blood pressure pills, assuming the blood pressure is accurate. However, Mr. Jones's blood pressure is actually low that morning at 90/59. He takes his medications as prescribed and eats breakfast. You come back 20 minutes later from McDonald's, and you and your GNA friend go to the break room and start eating breakfast. While you enjoy your breakfast, you hear the nurse call your name very loudly. You casually get up, open the breakroom door, and yell up the hall, "I am having breakfast. What is it?" She tells you Mr. Jones is on the floor unresponsive. You rush up to Mr. Jones's room with the vital sign machine, anticipating that the nurse will want vital signs. The nurse tries to wake Mr. Jones, but he isn't responding. She places the blood pressure cuff on his arm and gasps at the result. Mr. Jones's blood pressure says 50/30. The nurse starts the code response, delegates another nurse to call the paramedics, and prints all the necessary paperwork for the resident to be transferred to the hospital.

1. What are the legal implications of the GNA actions and inactions?

2. What are the administrative implications of the GNA's actions and inactions?

3. What are the civil (lawsuit) implications of the GNA's actions and inactions?

4. Respond to one of your classmate's answers: state if you agree or disagree and explain why you agree or disagree.