Although she tried every kind of treatment available to her, everything was ineffective and she ended up in a hospice center where was was able to avoid a drawn out painful demise. Duffy’s final example is from another writer’s story, where he uses excellent quotes and citations. He brings up a situation in which a nurse, who shares the same point of view as Duffy, hesitates to act when the patient is dying. For granting his dying wish, she is charged with murder. In conclusion, he states his opinion: American society should follow the lead of other countries and reevaluate the right of the terminally ill to die (76).
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.
Her medical history included advanced senile dementia and severe heart problems with a ‘DO NOT RESUSCITATE ORDER”. She was added to the operation list and the procedure was scheduled to take place towards the end of the day but the patients relatives who accompanied the patient was not informed of the decision either by the nursing or the surgical staff. She consented to having surgery with the medical staff but told the nursing staff that she had changed her mind. The nursing staff informed the consultant, which is in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Code of Conduct, which states that, we must work with others to protect and promote the health and well being of those in your care, by making referrals to another practitioner when it is in the best interest of
These five stages of grief were first proposed by Kubler-Ross in her 1969 book "On Death and Dying" which, based on his work with terminally ill patients, this author stated that after the death of a process initiated by which people deal with this loss. Although as mentioned above, these steps do not happen in order but come and go from them to finally accept death as an inevitable fact of life, the key to these steps is to understand how the grieving process occurs and how stage you are. Then we will inform you about each of these phases. FIRST STAGE OF GRIEF: DENIAL When a person learns the terminal illness or death of a loved one, your first reaction is to deny the reality of this devastating news. Denial is the conscious or unconscious of the facts or the reality of the situation rejection.
The patient constantly asks the medical assistant about her step daughter. However the doctor told the medical assistant not to tell the patient about her step daughter’s death without giving any reasons for such instructions. Hence, the medical assistant encounters an uncomfortable position of whether to tell the truth or withhold it. The moral principles in conflict are honesty and loyalty because the medical assistant wants to be honest with the patient without being disloyal to the doctor. Another issue of conflict is breach of confidentiality.
Overall, the researchers went about gathering the information for this study by performing various tests on residents as well as the staff of the six New York nursing homes. (1) The results of the study performed, based on psychiatric evaluation, is that the prevalence estimate for probable and/or definite major depressive disorder among testable subjects was 14.4 % (95 % CI of 10.6 %–19.3 %); 15.4 % were not able to be assessed due to their refusal, impairment of consciousness, or
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.
during a lingering illness. However, if the patient does not desire to use these medications due to not wanting to become “addicted”, feeling “out of it” or for other reasons, the nurse needs to respect the patient’s decision. It is the nurse’s duty to make sure the patient has been accurately informed of treatment options including side effects, common misperceptions, etc. but to not sway the patient’s decisions for treatment based on his/her own beliefs. A nurse may personally feel that a patient who is dying of cancer should utilize any and all pain management options available to them, however, if the patient does not wish to use pain medications because he/she feels “out of it” or is afraid of becoming “addicted”, the nurse needs to respect that patient’s choice.
One of the biggest issues with physicians prescribing placebos is they are doing so without even telling their patients what it is. Many physicians feel that placebos will not work if they explain to their patient what they are giving them. So when prescribing placebos they often tell their patients that they are prescribing them something that has been effective with other patients. And if they do decide to get the patients consent for use of the medication, the physicians are not even required to say its true name, “placebo”. The reason physicians feel that placebos work without the patient knowing is because when the patients take the medicine they believe they will get better, which causes a physiological change in the body.
This qualitative study was done in order to get an overall idea of what kind of attitudes cancer patients, their family members and health professionals had toward euthanasia. At their first glance of other research done on the topic they read that a lot of nurses found euthanasia unethical. They also argue that only god has the right to decide when a person is to die (Thiroux, 1980, Davis et al., 1993, McInerney & Seibold, 1995, p.17). Semi-structured recorded interviews were performed at 4 different hospitals with patients, family members, nurses and doctors. The recordings were transcribed and gone over to look for important phrases involving specific answers to research questions from the interviews.