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Case Study Jessica's Case Scenario

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This paper seeks to analyze the legal and ethical issues arising from Jessica’s case scenario. Jessica is a third year nursing student tasked with performing a medication round. During the round, Jessica was unable to read a medication order for one of her patients and sought assistance from her buddy registered nurse. The registered nurse admitted that she could not read the medication order but told her what she thought the medication was and suggested that she should go ahead and administer it.Jessica is torn between trusting the experience of the registered nurse and following the nursing code of ethics in solving to solve the issue. If she follows the registered nurse advice to administer the medication, Jessica risk administering

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