Health Care Professionals Found Guilty of Professional Misconduct

Question: Discuss about theHealth Care Professionals Found Guilty of Professional Misconduct. Answer: Professional misconduct is the behavior outside the bounds of what is well thought-out satisfactory or worthy of its involvement by the governing body of a profession. It is therefore in order and true that doctors or practicing nurses found guilty of misconduct should be deregistered(Koutoukidis, 2012). Healthcare professionals should be deregistered because they can endanger the health and comfort of patients and the excellence of nursing control team-work, it can also set patients into risk or really hurt because a healthcare worker lacks skills or offer careless care and appears impotent or reluctant to alteration the condition, some of the health workers even go to an extent of stealing drugs from the hospitals and even they have opened a chemist where they sell them. They should also be deregistered for wrong medication where a patient is wrongly mistaken and given a wrong medicine.an example of a patient who was having leg fracture and was to be operated, was mistakenly operated on the brain for suffering from a brain tumor. There are two categories of professional misconduct, misconduct which is linked with incompetence and that which is related with impairment, In the case of incompetence, a health worker operative is damaged as an outcome of shortages in information and aids and in the case of impairment a health workers reasoning, relational or psychomotor aptitudes are extremely impaired due to individual condition that interrelate with the situation such as material exploitation, violent behaviour, mental infection or physical incapacity. Examples of misconducts seen generous to the investigation were sexual harassment to a patient by especially male health workers, this is where when a female patient is attended by a male doctor, he abuses her sexually for her to get proper treatment, unlawful or wrong suggesting and unsuitable medical care(Wykes, 2013). The study was also practical that physical injury happened to patient 9% of the cases reported and 8% deaths (Association, 2011). It was a disaster when an eight-year-old boy died in Australia due to poor understanding, poor conclusion and incorrect action by doctor Hamid (University, 2014). The boy who was suffering from septic shock caused by a ruptured appendix. In the duties of the nurses and doctors, they are subjected to be true in their undertakings, a doctor should not take an operation he or she is not sure of, the doctor should not administer any drug to a patient without performing the test to know the exact disease just from the symptoms and sign he sees from the patient since many diseases share symptoms. A medic should not also lie to the patient that he or she is suffering from a given infection just to obtain a lot of money from him or her. Such codes of ethics for the medical operation should be highly checked and any nurse or a doctor who violates these codes of ethics should be deregistered. It is fair to deregister such a professional since he or she is not following the ethics of work. If such medics are allowed to continue with such behaviors they may bring more harm in the health sector which is not only overexploitation and harassment but also in some cases may lead to death. The health sector is a very strategic sector which doesn't require any misconduct in the operation. If a doctor gives a drug which he or she is very sure that cannot treat the intended disease but he or she does it just to earn income will highly affect the patient in different ways(Funnel, 2014). First, the patient will not receive the correct treatment for the disease, secondly, the patient may contract another disease as a result of drug abuse lastly the patient is conned as he or she pays for the service not delivered. Hence to avoid all these misfortunes vices in the health sector it is highly proper to deregister such professionals(University, 2014). Conclusion In summary, it is very right and highly healthy for the concerned bodies to deregister doctors, nurses and other medics who violate the codes of ethics of the practice of the medic. The aforementioned reasons fully give enough reasons why such medics should not allow to continue practicing as either a doctor or a nurse. 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