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.
Kevin Hyer has been working for Nittany Regional Medical Center for three years as a registered nurse. Kevin is also the Union steward for his ward of the hospital. In this paper I will explain the rationale behind my decisions; finding nurse Kevin innocent of insubordination and the intent to put a patient’s safety at jeopardy According to Ms. Martinez, Nurse Kevin refused a lawful and direct order from her to move a patient from a gurney to a bed post operation procedures. Both the Hospital and Ms. Martinez also felt that there was another direct violation. Through the hospital and Ms. Martinez’s eyes Kevin neglected the patient; leaving the patient in the gurney for an unacceptable duration of time for another staff member to move.
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).
In Season 1. Lydia became very confused, fell, and fractured her hip. She was hospitalized and had undergone surgery to repair her hip. Danillo spent much of his time at the hospital, blaming the staff for not taking care of her, neglecting his own health during that time his blood pressure was elevated and several attacks of angina. He adjusted his medications according to the reading of his blood pressure and did not seek medical attention.
Journal Entry One At one of the facilities that I worked , there was an issues with missing controlled medication ,where at the end of the shift , the out-going nurse could not account for the narcotics entrusted to him at the beginning of his shift.He was delayed from going home ,the police was invited and he had to write a statement of the incident, and aftwerwards suspended for three days without pay according to the facility’s policy. Three weeks later , another incident of narcotics misappropriation happened where a nurse got off from work without counting narcotics with the in-coming nurse who was late to work. So the in-coming nurse took the keys and started working till the end of her shift before she realized
Glenwood Gardens CPR Case: independent living Home Defends Nurse Who Refused To Help Ailing Patient” March 4th, 2010 On March 6th 2013, an 87-year-old woman named Lorraine Bayless died in the dining hall of her elder home. The elder home, called Glenwood Gardens is located in California and is owned by a Tennessee-based company called Brookdale Senior Living. While she Ms. Bayless was on the floor fighting for her life, a nurse called 911. For seven minutes, Tthe dispatcher asked her, for seven minutes, the nurse to perform CPR on the patient. However, the nurse refused to do so, on the woman by claiming that it was against company policy to perform CPR on those living in the home.
In most states a participant in a crime (like a hold-up) may be vicariously liable for murder if another member of the group shoots and kills a shopkeeper or policeman. According to the narrative, the only nurse on duty walked to a distant place to eat in inclement weather, a patient dies due to an allergic reaction to the misadministration of medication, and a patient falls and sustains an injury. Vicarious liability (respondeat superior), legal duty to use due car, breach of duty and corporate liability are the legal considerations in the case of the Snow Storm narrative. Vicarious liability is based on the employer assuming responsibility for the acts of its employees because it controls the means and methods under which the employee works, according to Showalter (2008). Meaning, any tort committed by an employee, the corporation will be liable.
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.
* Caring for Elderly Parents | Last July, Julie Baldocchi's mother had a massive stroke and was paralyzed. Baldocchi suddenly had to become a family caregiver, something that she wasn't prepared for. "I was flying by the seat of my pants," says Baldocchi, an employment specialist in San Francisco. Both of her parents are 83, and she knew her father couldn't handle her mother's care. The hospital recommended putting her mother in a nursing home.