Question

Case 1 You are on placement and are walking your patient back to their bed. On the way you pass anothen student nurse who is talking with another patient. You can hear some heated exchange between them and look over to hear the patient shout an expletive at the student who then slaps the patient and walks off, You and your patient (who also heard and saw the incident) are quite shaken by what you have seen and once your patient is back in their bed you go to find your fellow student. The student is crying and quite upset but asks you not to say anything. You are concerned about what you witnessed, and you are also concerned how this might affect the other student. No

Answer 1

Answer:

the student just slaps the patient and walks off. If she were a good friend of mine,  I wouldn't say anything unless the patient who she hit was injured badly .

Explanation:

If the patient who was walking with her was an old man or a person who was critically injured,  you should of course say it to the head nurse who would then look after the incident.