24th July 1999: Victoria is taken to North Middlesex Hospital's casualty department with scalding to her head and face which the doctors immediately suspect have been deliberately inflicted. Kouao presents another story as to how the injuries were sustained to Lisa Arthurworrey and PC Jones. 6th August 1999: Victoria is discharged from the hospital and is collected by Kouao after her explanation for the injuries is accepted by child protection authorities. October 1999: Trial evidence reveals that from October 1999 until the following January, Carl Manning forces Victoria to sleep in a bin liner
Medication errors performed by health care professionals are the most common type of injury resulting in patient harm and death. According to "U.S. Food And Drug Administration" (2014), a medication error is "any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer (para. 1). This paper further discusses a critical regulatory issue in health care relating to a case law, which sent a pharmacist to jail for a medication error that led to the death of a child. In February 2006, Emily Jerry, a two-year old child was at a Cleveland hospital to complete her last series of chemotherapy treatment.
José E. Colón Serrano English 3101-2U1 December 04, 2013 In Barbara Huttman’s "A Crime of Compassion”, she develops the conflict undergone by the author, a nurse who performed euthanasia without the approval of her superior. Euthanasia in accordance to “BBC-Ethics” is the termination of life of a very sick person in order to free them from their suffering. In most cases, euthanasia is carried out because the person who is seriously ill asks for it, but there are cases where a person cannot make such request. The author was taken to the Phil Donahue show as if she was taken to court, but in the eyes of the audience she already was guilty of committing a crime. This essay will argue that Huttmann made a wise decision and did not commit a crime.
The bruise had been there for a few days and was starting to bother me. My mother took me to the pediatrician’s office that sent us for x-rays. My mom received a phone call; this is a day we will never forget. The pediatrician states that I need to be seen up at children’s hospital in Boston by a specialist in Infectious disease. After months of testing and the doctors telling my mom I might have cancer, we finally got an answer.
Mr. J was diagnosed with mild dementia and was drowsy, so the nursing staff had put him in restraint. Although, there are very flexible guidelines for the use of restraint in the National Quality Forum (2004), but, in case of Mr. J, the nurse is rigidly focused on keeping the patient in restraint to reduce risk of falling. The restraint makes the patient’s body immobile and can also make the patient feel imprisoned; leading to depression and other psychological disorders (Foster, 2012). A clear lack of ignorance of nursing standards is affecting Mr. J. Apart from lack of knowledge; there is a clear disregard for following patient care guidelines by the nursing staff.
November 19, 2013 Professor Tester Psychology 155 Depression in Nursing Homes Depression in Nursing homes is often a major issue discussed worldwide. The article “Prevalence of depression and depression recognition in nursing homes” discusses a study with an aim to estimate the prevalence of depression among nursing home residents, and the recognition of depression among nursing home staff. The research sought to answer the question of how prevalent depression is among the residents and how well does the staff in nursing homes recognize depression. In the study random samples totaling 319 nursing home residents were drawn from a random sample of six downstate New York nursing homes and were evaluated psychiatrically for depression. Various staff members used in the study such as nurse aides, nurses and social workers also assessed the same residents for the presence of depressive symptomatology.
During my shift one of the district nurses asked me if I would be able to do joint visit with her to visit Slovakian family. The purpose of that visit was to announce husband that his wife’s health conditions worsenet . is dying. It was early morning when one of the district nurses asked me to do joint visit one of the our caseloads. The purspose of the visit was to deliver a bad news to husband that his wife’s health condition took worst over the night in the hospital.
After that, they end up sleeping in the couch or in front of the computer without turning off the television or computer. They do not value sleep that much. However, they did not aware of the negative effect of sleeping late which is less than eight hours a day. According to various scientific researches, sleeping late does affect us in every aspect. One of the major effects is health problem.
What wasn’t normal was that she was sad, very sad. I had never seen my grandmother cry, that I could remember, and even worse I had no idea why she was crying. Now I can’t believe she didn’t cry more. Then she went to the hospital for a long time for various surgeries, and plans on what to do next. My brother and I stayed at my Grandpa’s house most of the time she was up there mostly only going home to sleep and get ready for school the next day, it was weird and confusing but my grandpa was good at getting our minds off of things and keeping our spirits up when he needed to.
Then we went back home and my stomach was still aching. My stomach ached so much that I couldn’t even go to school for a week. After staying at home for one week my parents took me to another doctor because they had a feeling that my stomach ache wasn’t just a stomach ache. After the doctor examined my body, the doctor said that I suffered from appendicitis. The next morning at seven o’clock I had an appendectomy at Bungsu Hospital.