Concealing a Patient's Medication is NOT Good.

Nurses should do the right care to their patients and provide them the best they can give.

Patients have the right to refuse treatments and medications according to the Patient’s Bill of Rights. As a health care provider, you are required to the Patient’s Bill of Rights. As a health care provider, you are required to make them understand the risk of refusing those medication and treatment. With the help of an informed consent, you are both safe in doing this act.

As a student nurse, I would disagree in disguising the medication that is to be given to patients who have refused to receive one. Even if these medications will help them survive, it is the right of the patient to know and refuse medications or treatment. This issue must be discussed with the patient, relatives, and families and to the professionals involved in the health care setting and is recorded in the patients chart. Nurses who are disobeying this rule must be punished even if they’re goal is for the better condition of their patient. Hiding medications to the patients should not be tolerated because others may take this as an opportunity to do some personal bad things to their patients. This may become a bad habit of the health professionals and for not recognizing the Patient’s Bill of Rights.