Research on reports and concerns on failures to protect vulnerable adults from abuse… Winterbourne View hospital abuse A private hospital in Hambrook in England operated by Castleback was physically and psychologically abusing people with learning disabilities. The 24 bed hospital was providing assessment, treatment and rehabilitation for people with learning disabilities and autism. Thanks to hidden camera was this dreadful hospital shut and all 11 staff members who abused patients were sentenced for criminal acts. 6 have been sent into the prison. Abuse: An undercover reporter recorded secret footage of patients being abused by carers.
Task D In May 2011 BBC Panorama aired a program called “Undercover Care”. The program showed the unmanaged staff at Winterbourne View hospital mistreating and assaulting adults with learning disabilities and autism. The program caused up roar in society, people who watched it were left feeling angry, disgusted and shocked with how the staff had being treating service users. Winterbourne View was a hospital in south Gloucestershire for people with learning disabilities and autism whose behaviour sometimes made their health professionals and families worry. Winterbourne View hospital was put in place to help to assess and treat patients so that they could lead ordinary lives in their own homes.
Victoria had been racially abused by a white patient, staff had tried their best to move her off the ward, and this has made akinyemi very annoyed and angry. After this many nurses covered her mouth and blind folded her for 20 minutes, in result to this Victoria then died of asphyxiation. Adding on to this her family was not informed about her death for 4 days. In June 2012, an inquest came to a result of ‘unintentional death’. The coroner made suggestions to improve practices.
Winterbourne View Scandal I have chosen to write about the Winterbourne View care home for my essay about the abuse the people under their care experienced as this is a subject I feel very passionate about. The Winterbourne care home was a privately run hospital in Hambrook, south Gloucestershire operated by Castlebeck care, which closed in the wake of the scandal. Winterbourne was opened in December 2006 and had enough beds for 24 people with learning difficulties; it was registered to provide assessment and treatment to their residents. Castlebeck earned an average of £3,500 per week for each patient with a turnover of £3.7 million. The patients of Winterbourne care home were placed far away from their families, one of the main reasons they were placed in Winterbourne was so they can manage crisis.
As a result of this documentary, in July 2014, one staff member was immediately dismissed and seven people supsended and in August, three carers appeared in court charged with assaulting and neglecting elderly residents. The independant regulator for health and social care in England-the Care Quality Commission (hereafter CQC)-carried out a detailed investigation into the Old Deanery and on October 1st 2014, published its findings. The damning report concluded that the home was meeting just one of its 9 standard requirements. Almost immediately, there followed a wave of high profile media coverage. The scope of this analysis included newspapers, tabloids and broadsheets, television news reports and internet news websites.
June 20 , 2001 Andrea Yates shocked a nation as news stations aired stories proclaiming that she had taken the lives of her five children .As details unfolded over the next few months and stories would surface that revealed Mrs . Yates had a long history of mental illness . Numerous people have admitted guilt , expressing their shame and apologies for assuming the children were safe . Opinions of many believe that Russell Yates simply looked the other way , allowing his wife to have control and ultimately end the lives of his children . His character was consistently scrutinized over the course of the trial , only to be defended by family members .
Ms. Bobbitt stated this evoked memories of years of abuse and walked into the bedroom where John was sleeping and cut off almost half of penis. During the trail Ms. Bobbitt’s defense claimed she suffered from clinical depression and she was acquitted. She underwent 45 days of psychiatric evaluation and then was released. 4. Jeffrey Dahmer was serial killer and sex offender in 1991.
Eventually Proctor is also thrown in jail and in due time is convinced to confess to witchcraft, they have him sign a written confession that will justify all of the other higher stature hangings, Proctor realizes this after he has already signed, “( his breast heaving, is eyes staring, Proctor tears the paper and crumples it, and he is weeping in fury, but erect. )”(Miller 4. 739-40) yet again he acts on the spot with no warning or sign what so ever, he tears the confession so they cannot use his name to hang all the other accused, he is then lead away at dawn with no legal confession to hang at the gallows ending the play an a very dark
This violation would have never happened had Sue’s staff been vigilant when dealing with their patient’s protected health information. From a compliance perspective several mistakes led to the elder Mr. Stevens’ privacy rights being violated. My biggest concern is that this could be a systemic problem based upon the overall performance throughout this one incident. Is it possible that there are other patient charts which have the wrong patient contact information? Why has no one been verifying each patient’s contact information during each office visit?
This nurse should have requested assistance from a nursing supervisor when the physician failed to acknowledge the patient’s right to self determination by stating “No” when the physician wished to intubate him as well as acknowledging that this patient had an advanced directive. This nurse also failed, when she initially spoke with the DPOA, to notify him that the patient had an advanced directive and she should have taken steps to notify him of this as soon as she realized that she had made a