Reference will be made to relevant educational theory and literatures to support this case study. For confidentiality reasons, all names have been changed in accordance with the NMC code of professional conduct (NMC, 2008). Emma is a 23 year old newly qualified mental health nurse who is currently going through her preceptorship period in a medium secure forensic mental health ward. Prior to her current role, she had spent the last four years studying to become a nurse, however, all her placement was in general psychiatry without any previous experience in forensic settings. Emma has a 4 year old daughter and she is a single mum.
In February 2006, Emily Jerry, a two-year old child was at a Cleveland hospital to complete her last series of chemotherapy treatment. Her doctor ordered intravenous chemotherapy solution that was filled incorrectly by a pharmacy technician. The prescription called for 1% saline; however, a lethal amount of 23% saline was given instead, causing her to slip into a coma resulting in death. Eric Cropp, who was the supervising pharmacist signed off on the technician’s work despite her informing him that the mixture did not look right; nonetheless, he approved it. The pharmacy was so busy that day and short staffed, which led to a preventable fatal error that changed Eric’s whole life in a matter of seconds.
I had to go on independent study because I was bedridden. I started getting really sick again so I went to the hospital and by the middle of April they said they would have to take her. I was scared. I didn’t know if she would live or not. She was born April 21, 1993 weighing only three pounds fourteen ounces and was sixteen and a half inches long.
2005). In the case of Miss Jones, the doctors probably feel they have made their decisions in her best interest due to the unknowing quality of her life after being resuscitated. This is similar to the idea of mercy killing – ‘euthanasia’ to be precise (Herring, J. 2006). However, they have not done so in her best interest and so they have failed to meet her desires by acting without her informed consent.
My patient, Ms Carew was a 72 year old pensioner who lived with her daughter. She took two buses to get to the dental hospital each morning. She had her teeth extracted when she was in her 20s and used to have a new set of dentures made every second year until 1994. She had been wearing her dentures at night for as long as she had had them and because she didn’t have denture stomatitis, it was a bit difficult for me to explain the importance of leaving out her dentures at night. On extra-oral examination (muscle symptoms and joint sounds), there were no abnormalities detected except for a slight asymmetry in the lip region.
As his mother (also a Jehovah’s Witness) and an elder from his church were present at all times during the hospital stay, it was speculated that they were unduly influencing him to keep refusing the life-sustaining transfusion. However, Patient A was assessed by a third party and it was confirmed that he had full mental capacity and was making the decision on his own. As a result, Patient A did not receive blood transfusion and after three weeks in a hospital in the United Kingdom he died (1). In this paper I will consider the ethical implications involved in the care of adults (with full capacity) who refuse medical treatment on religious grounds. Reading about this case made me think of the ethical challenges that caring for members of faith who refuse life-saving treatments may pose for the physician – emotional, professional, and legal.
When trying to figure out what kind of social norm I wanted to break I didn’t want to do something so out of the box. I had heard all the stories of the really elaborate ways to go out of the social norm. I researched thing to do that were a little more in my comfort range and couldn’t really find anything to do, until I was sitting in the hospital waiting room, because my sister in law was in labor. I saw this old woman sitting there, and it’s really unusual to go strike up a conversation with some random stranger but that is exactly what I did. It was not easy for me to do this because I am so shy.
This essay will argue that Huttmann made a wise decision and did not commit a crime. She made a very difficult decision to free Mac of his misery and live with a peaceful conscience. During the 80's euthanasia was not a common procedure for hospitals. There are patients like Mac who are very ill and transformed from a strong, young person in to a skeleton trapped in a hospital bed. When people are very sick and have to lay in bed for months without showing a bit of progress, as in the majority of the cancer cases, they are in agony.“The Doctor believed that life must be extended as long they have the means and knowledge to do it” (Huttmann 114).
Congress has already put in place an act called the Prison Rape Elimination Act which was signed into law in September 2003. Basically saying that all prisons, jails, juvenile facilities are to adopt a "zero tolerance" policy to any criminal sex act between prisoners and those who guard them. As you could imagine it has had little effect on actually stopping any prison rapes. One reason is partly because reducing prison rape and sexual abuse is simply not a priority for correctional officers. Also the sexual assault of prisoners is the only form of rape deemed fit for humor, with movies dedicated to making fun of prison rape victims.
In the late fall of 2009, my mom was put on dialysis treatment three (3) times a week. I drove her to Terrell when I was not in school and waited with her for the 4-4 ½ hours while she underwent the dialysis treatments. In January and February of 2010, my mom was in ********Medical Center—***** for 56 days because of major heart surgery. My dad needed to stay with her and I was “home alone” at the age of 16. I learned to be self sufficient: laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, getting myself up in the morning and off to school, keeping my grades up, taking care of the animals, keeping the house clean, and all the other responsibilities required when living “on your own”.