Gross negligence typically consists of unintentional acts, but can be deemed intentional based on the reckless nature of the event. An example of gross negligence would be not giving an elderly bedridden patient food or water for several days. Malpractice is defined as the failure of a professional person to act in accordance with the prevailing professional standards or failure to foresee consequences that a professional person, having the necessary skills and education, should foresee” (Guido, 2010, p.93). Malpractice is often called professional negligence. The most common categories of malpractice and negligence among nurses are the failure to follow standards of care, use equipment in a responsible manner,
Negligence Kei'Shia C. Bowers HCS/478 May 21, 2012 Barbara Scheibe Negligence As a healthcare provider or patient there are certain terms that can send chills down your spine. As a healthcare provider the some words can implicate career ending actions and as a patient, those same terms can mean that something inappropriate and terrible has gone wrong. Those three words are negligence, gross-negligence and malpractice. It is the goal of every facility that provides healthcare to avoid the kind of mistakes that cause life-changing occurrences in the lives of their patients and families. The article in The Neighborhood newspaper focuses on Mr. Benson, 62-year-old male patient who underwent a below the knee amputation of his lower
This causes a potential loss of business from the patient and whoever the patient tells about the incident. Before long, the hospital will have a bad reputation in the community’s eyes. This is never a good thing for any health care team member involved. Depending on the severity of the breach, it’s also possible that someone can lose their medical license on top of being fined. A health care team must learn to obey the rules and regulations of the HIPAA Privacy
Ethics committees can be useful in this situation, because they can help explain the patient’s situation and provide possible answers to those hard questions. The nurse who neglected care towards the patients, in my opinion, should lose their job. Nurses who neglect care are putting their patients at danger. According to the Code of Nursing Ethics, “The nurse owes the same duties to self as to others, including the responsibility to preserve integrity and safety, to maintain competence, and to continue personal and professional growth” (ANA Code of Nursing Ethics). This nurse neglected the patient, therefore, neglected the responsibility in preserving the safety and integrity of the patient.
Discrimination can be seen in practise with stereotyping, labelling, disempowering, abusing, bullying, abuse of power, infringements of rights and over-riding individual’s rights. Stereotyping is when assumptions are made about groups based on information relating to a small number of people. In a health and social care setting, this discriminatory practise may be used by discriminating against someone’s disabilities or cognitive ability as they may think just because a person has a disability, that person will need constant surveillance and will never be independent when that is not necessarily true. This may affect the service user by making them feel devalued, marginalised and have low self-esteem and self-efficacy. Feeling devalued comes about when a
RTT1 Task 2 Jake McKee Western Governors University RTT1 Task 2 Root Cause Analysis (RCA) that led to sentinel event Root cause in this scenario appears to be a combination of things. Most significantly, staff did not safely adjust to rapidly increasing demands of their patient acuity and census. The infrastructure did not allow simultaneous monitoring of two patients in crisis. The department is at high risk of inundation, being staffed with only one RN and one LPN, one secretary, and one emergency department physician. Secondly, balance in the monitoring of high-risk patients was inadequate.
It is the failure to meet a standard of care or standard of conduct that is recognized by a profession reaches the level of malpractice when a client or patient is injured or damaged because of error. Medical malpractice is professional negligence by act or omission by a health care provider in which the treatment provided falls below the accepted standard of practice in the medical community and causes injury or death to the patient, with most cases involving medical error. It usually involves an alleged tort of negligence (states the party who acted wrongfully is liable for damages to the injured party). Criminal negligence is the failure to use reasonable care to avoid consequences that threaten or harm the safety of the public and that are the foreseeable outcome of acting in a particular manner. Unlike the tort of Negligence, a person who is convicted of criminal negligence is subject to a fine, imprisonment, or both, because of the status of the conduct as a
If you are not technologically savvy and do not know how to use the program, then it defeats the purpose of trying to help the patient and can lead to errors in judgment and advice, as well as distrust of the patient. Also, because of the limited amount of memory space, it is important for the nurse to know what information is the most important to put in the chart, and when old records can be erased (for example, labs that are always repeated, you only need 2-3 sets to show the
HOW TO RECOGNIZE AND REPORT UNSAFE PRACTICES Unsafe practices are anything that would threaten the personal safety of another person whether if it is due to physical, emotional or psychological means. An employee or staff has the obligation to take care of himself and his client’s safety and cooperate with the management in safety practices. Samples of unsafe practices in health and social care are: • Lack of training and supervision • Negligence to provide personal care • Unsafe recruitment practices • Inappropriate physical restraint • Using abusive words or sexually explicit languages • Ignoring client’s health and social needs (personal hygiene care) • Misuse or mishandling of client’s belongings and finances • Inappropriate sharing of information regarding client’s state of health • Confusion over prescribing and administering of medication • Lack of awareness of infection control • Lack of fire safety knowledge and evacuation procedures • Improper disposal of clinical and chemical waste • Lack of knowledge in moving and handling • Food safety awareness and poor hand hygiene techniques • Misuse of hoist and other equipments It is the obligation and a responsibility of everyone to report any unsafe practices that have been identified to the supervisor or line manager, so that staffs can be retrained and accidents that may cause injuries and damages will be avoided, falling to do so means encouraging them that it is the right thing to do. This could also mean grounds for disciplinary actions, suspension and even dismissal for staffs who doesn’t report unsafe practices. Follow the whistle-blowing procedure and policies.
The tort of negligence is a term that escapes complete definition. Torts of negligence are breaches of duty that results to injury to another person to whom the duty breached is owed. Like all other torts, the requirements for this are duty, breach of duty by the defendant, causation and injury. It includes carelessness and lack of foresight; however the significance of negligence in tort is much broader. In law, it is defined as the “omission to do something which a reasonable man, guided upon those considerations which ordinarily regulate the conduct of human affairs, would do, or something which a prudent and reasonable man would not do.” (Alderson, 1856) [Blyth v Birmingham Waterworks Co.] [1856] in this essay I will discuss the essential ingredients that make up the tort of negligence.