- Avoid interfering to prevent embarrassment.
- Offer to complete the colleague's charting.
- Report the technical incompetence to the charge nurse for appropriate training or intervention.
- Provide one-on-one technical training to the colleague during patient care.
A nurse witnesses a colleague providing substandard care due to being technologically incompetent with a new electronic charting system, leading to delayed documentation of critical vital signs. The colleague is otherwise a good nurse but resistant to learning new tech. What is the nurse’s ethical obligation?
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