A nurse realizes that a client received an incorrectly high dose of a medication. Prior to investigating the reason, the nurse checks for evidence of the medication's side effects with the client
This nurse's moral agency would be considered: 1. Expert.
2. Low.
3. Well developed.
4. Competent.
Expert.
Rationale: Clinical judgment requires moral agency, defined as the ability to effect and influence situations. Good practice requires that the nurse develop skillful ethical comportment as a practitioner and that the nurse use good clinical judgment informed by scientific evidence and technological development. Monitoring the quality of care and preventing imminent breakdown in practice quality require social communication skills and effective moral agency, both of which are the client's frontline defense against errors and the hazards of hospitalization. The clinician's capacity for moral agency literally changes with the growth of clinical judgment, perceptiveness, communication skills, and skillful comportment. The skills of involvement with the client and engagement with the clinical situation are also learned developmentally over time and change with level of skill acquisition.
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