Medication Error: The Error Administration of Phytonadione Nhu L. Vicente El Camino College Medication Error: The Error Administration of Phytonadione Medication error is a problematic event in all healthcare facility. Many scholars have conducted researches to rule out the cause of, and find the solution for, medication error. In their study of neonatal medication error, Sauberan, Dean, Fiedelak, and Abraham (2010) found that the major reason of medication error in their neonatal intensive care units is the mixing up between “look-alike” adult and neonatal strengths (p. 49). In their first case study, the adult strength of Phytonadione (also known as vitamin K1) is incorrectly administered into the neonate at three hours of life. Although the infant is finally discharged in good condition, the mistake is a hard lesson for all healthcare workers.
Acute Renal Failure NU270 Assignment 6.1 7/26/2012 Patients that are in acute renal failure have many obstacles that they are faced with. The nurse should follow evidence based interventions when caring for them. Electrolyte imbalance, blood loss, infection, and nutrition are just a few of the issues the nurse must be educated about. It is important for the nurse to impose every intervention available to reduce the risk of infection in the patient experiencing acute renal failure. “Make sure appropriate hand hygiene is used.
Milgrams Study on Obedience to Authority and its relevance to the Nursing Profession The key element of this report will be related to Milgrams Study and how under certain cultural and societal norms people are prepared to act in a way that goes against what morally right and against what they know and believe and how this can be relevant to nursing. Stanley Milgram 1933-84 In 1961 Milgram conducted his obedience studies (Milgram 1961). The experiment was to see if someone would be prepared to inflict, potentially fatal shocks on a fellow person when instructed to do so by a figure in authority. The original experiment, conducted in 1961, involved 40 non academic men, recruited via ads in a local newspaper, in a study purported to be about memory. The Experiment The experiment involved a teacher and a learner (an actor) in separate rooms with the learner strapped into a chair and wired into a generator.
Core Assessment Paper Physician Assisted Suicide Creates Perpetuates the Slippery Slope Argument Abstract Human illness, suffering and death, unfortunately, are part of the human condition, and dealing with chronic illness and death is part of the human experience. With a topic as far reaching as Physician Assisted Suicide (PAS), and, of course the root topic, death, it is understandable that much controversy exist between propends of suicide as a method to ease suffering and their opposition. This paper will address the controversy by presenting a balanced assessment of each argument. The research and findings will show trend predictions in the Slippery Slope argument have been proven factual. Keywords: Physician Assisted Suicide, Medical Ethics, Goals of Medicine, Slippery Slope, Sweden .
The following essay will discuss a clinical incident which may have had the potential to cause harm to a patient whilst being nursed post operatively. The focus will be to critically discuss drug errors, why they occur and consider the rationale behind intravenous (IV) fluid therapy, outlining the possible negative effects of fluid overload on a patient whilst considering the nurses role in respect of legal and professional issues surrounding the incident. To protect identities and comply with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Conduct (2008) all names will be changed. The model chosen for this reflection is the Gibbs (1988) Reflective Cycle which encompasses 6 stages of description, thoughts and feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action plan which will continuously improve my nursing skills by learning experiences and develop my self confidence when caring for others (Siviter 2008). Description The critical incident took place on a surgical ward whilst I was on placement.
In this essay we examine the impact of withholding and withdrawal of treatment from a nursing perspective and examine the ethical issues involved. When a cure is absolutely impossible certain life sustaining medical treatments such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation, ventilation, nutrition and hydration, dialysis, transfusions, and antibiotics may have to be withdrawn or withheld (Derse, 2005). Recent media attention on the case of Terri Schiavo has successfully highlighted the ethical, legal and social issues of withdrawing and withholding treatment. Konishi et al (2002) discuss the ethics of withdrawing artificial food and fluid from terminally ill patients bringing in the dilemma on end of life issues and whether life of patients could be ended intentionally by stopping or withdrawing treatment. Withdrawal of food and fluid from terminally ill patients is a growing ethical issue and concerns patients, families, and nurses as well.
Chart Audit/Chart Abstractions Chart auditing serves many purposes, compliance, research, administrative and clinical. You can conduct a chart audit on virtually any aspect of care that is documented in the medical record. Practices frustrated with clinical processes that don’t work well can use chart audits to document that something is wrong, find the defect and fix it. The most helpful use of a chard audit is to measure the quality of care so that you can improve it. A practice might review charts to see how often a particular vaccine is offered, given or declined.
There are very dangerous consequences...") 2. What did the FactCheck staff find out about the risks of the vaccine? (Are there are any risks? If so, what are the risks, and how serious are they?) (3 points) The IOM panel concluded "the evidence is strong and generally suggestive" of a causal relationship between the HPV vaccine and anaphylaxis, which is a severe allergic reaction, but that it is a rare reaction.
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.
Quantitative Research Critique Grand Canyon University Introduction to Nursing Research NRS-433V Mary O'Connell September 13, 2013 Quantitative Research Critique This is a quantitative study research critique of the research study conducted by Lisa M Black PhD,RN,CNE, Tragedy into Policy: A Quantitative Study of Nurses Attitudes Toward Patient Advocacy Activities. The findings from this research study was used in the state of Nevada to protect nurses when reporting unsafe conditions in patient care practices, thus providing a safer work environment where nurses can feel safe when speaking out where patient safety is in jeopardy from unsafe care practices. Protection of Human Participants The benefits of this study were the creation of legal protection for whistleblowers in the state of Nevada. There were no risks to any participants’ safety for this study. Informed consent was not needed as retuning the completed survey was viewed as consent to be included.