The patient wife filed a malpractice law suit of wrongful death against the hospital facility and was awarded judgment of the negligence by the nurse in which the case was later appealed by the hospital. The defense had a general nurse testify that the nurses should have had the ability to know that the patient was high risk, however there was not any notes taking or provided in the nurses care
In December of 1995 Ms. Brzonkala filled suite against Mr. Morrison, Mr. Crawford and Virginia Tech in Federal District Court. The basis for her complaint was that alleged rape by Mr. Morrison and Mr. Crawford was in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 13981, the Violence Against Act (VAWA) Mr. Crawford and Mr. Morrison moved to dismiss the complaint on the grounds that § 13981’s civil remedy was unconstitutional. DECISIONS BELOW: The district court dismissed the complaint. The court of appeals affirmed and Ms. Brzonkala appealed.
Kuntz’s case eventually went to trial and it was found that she did in fact have legal duty to call EMS due to a common law exemption. Kuntz and Becker lived together for six years. There are several other cases along the same guidelines. In the state v Mally, Micheal Mally was accused of manslaughter because his wife had fell and broke body parts and he just layed her in bed for the night and didn’t call doctor. On top of the Mally’s wife had a failing kidney and liver.
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Lancet, 380, 1043. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61345-8 Dunn, L. (2013, June 11). Caring for the Uninsured: How Free Clinics, Hospitals Can Partner to Treat a Community’s Most Vulnerable. Retrieved from Becker’s Healthcare website: http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/news-and-analysis/caring-for-the-unisured-how-free- clinics-hospitals-can-partner-to-treat-a-community-s-most-vunerable.html Highlights from the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2010. (2011, February). Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD.
The Legal & Ethical Parameters of the Professional Nursing Practice A Brisbane Nurse has recently been banned from registration for four years due to his sexual relationship with a patient after the cessation of their therapeutic relationship. The nurse had also been found to have removed the patient’s identification bracelet from the hospital which contained confidential information. It was deemed by The Nurses and Midwifery Board of Australia that there had been enough cause to seek discipline action. For many people this would seem to be a drastic discipline measure, but the Nursing Profession is bound by legal and ethical parameters of professional practice designed to support patient’s rights and safe guard the community from having care by unqualified health professionals. In this case there was a breach of trust, confidentiality and the Code of Conduct for the Nursing Profession.
Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care Section 4 – Task Four care workers have been sentenced for abusing elderly residents at a care home in Lancashire. The abuse took place from May 2010 to September 2011 at Hillcroft nursing home in Slyne-with-Hest near Lancaster. They were charged with ill-treatment and wilful neglect of a person with lack of capacity under the Mental Capacity Act 2005. Residents were mocked, bullied and tormented because they would have no memory of the abuse. The court was told one man had his foot stamped on deliberately and another was nearly tipped out of his wheelchair.
Patient Self-Determination Act HCR/210 October 5, 2011 Patient Self-Determination Act The Patient Self-Determination Act on health care delivery was effected because this gave the patients and their families the right to choose exactly how they wanted to have their medical care given. One example of this is the Do Not Resuscitate Order which is if a patient chooses not to let the medical staff restart their heart after it stops, then the medical staff would have to honor the patient's wishes and let them pass away. Without this order, the medical staff would have to do whatever means they have in order to save that patients life. This particular order is familiar to me because my mother in law signed a DNR Order because she was diagnosed with cancer and toward the end of her life, she was suffering and she chose to let her heart stop and end the suffering instead of having it restarted and suffer longer. This is a popular order because this gives the patients that suffer from a terminal illness, the ability to end their life instead of prolonging the pain.
If this action was done right away, the patient might have had a chance to live. According to Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, “autonomy refers to a person’s rational capacity for self-governance or self-determination - the ability to direct one’s own life and choose for oneself” (Vaughn, 9). The article says, “In the event of a health emergency at this independent living community our practice is to immediately call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives….that is the protocol we follow” (Fox News). The faculty members at the facility are to respect the patient’s autonomy while they are in their care. The nurses know how to revive a patient in the case of an emergency while waiting for other medical help.