Reference no: EM133297242

Question: Respond to the following case study. Be attentive to the details. This case study requires TWO separate responses. The first response is for the initial report of suspected diversion. The second scenario includes the same people involved in the previous scenario only three months later. Make note of the various issues occurring in each scenario. Again, be attentive to the details and address EACH issue.

Jennifer S. is the most beloved nurse on your unit. She is kind, hard-working, and is rarely tardy or absent. A charge nurse, Larry T., who has worked for you satisfactorily for ten years, comes to you and tells you that he saw Jennifer taking a narcotic and placing it in her pocket. When you discuss this with Jennifer, she falls apart crying, claiming that she simply placed the syringe in her pocket because she was tied up with an emergency task, but later gave the medication as she charted. The patient states he cannot really remember if he received any pain medicine. Now no one wants to work with Larry T., and there are many unit "rumblings" about his "poking his nose where it doesn't belong". Jennifer tells you she is probably going to quit since her integrity was questioned. What do you do? Again, be very detailed in your response, and include specific actions you could take to improve lines of communications.

Three months later: Larry has become much quieter and rarely talks socially with others on the unit, just choosing to work independently. Jennifer S. continues to work on the unit, and continues to be well liked by others. Unlike her usual self, she has been late to work three times this month. Today, a graduate nurse, who is very inexperienced and rather shy, comes to your office. This is her second week of employment. She timidly states that she thinks she saw Jennifer putting a medicine vial in her purse in the locker room, but "isn't sure". What do you do now?