This allows the results to be generalised. Weaknesses The hospital staff was deceived - this is, of course, unethical. Although Rosenhan did conceal the names of hospitals or staff and attempted to eliminate any clues which might lead to their identification. Rosenhan did note that the experiences of the pseudo-patients could have differed from that of real patients who did not have the comfort of knowing that the diagnosis was false. Perhaps Rosenhan was being too hard on psychiatric hospitals, especially when it is important for them to play safe in their diagnosis of abnormality because there is always an outcry when a patient is let out of psychiatric care and gets into trouble.
Hospital staff may not understand what opportunities that the data could bring to the hospital staff and patients? Does the hospital staff know what data they are required to enter for patient information into the computer system? Do they know how the system works thoroughly? Is there something that the information system is not doing correctly to accurately record this data? The hospital staff could be working extra hours to get data completed with no compensation for their time.
The Role Risk Management Plays at a Nursing Home Stephanie Creech HCS/451 March 26, 2012 Kristen Hauck The Role Risk Management Plays at a Nursing Home In April 2009 a jury awarded a $6.5 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against a nursing home; the cause of death was lack of water. Perhaps, if the nursing home had an effective risk management team this may not have happened. As one can see risk management is important in any field including healthcare. The role risk management plays in healthcare is important, because controlling risk can mean more resources are available, and a higher quality of care can be achieved. Risk management is the process of identifying, assessing, and prioritizing, risks of all kinds (whatisriskmangement.net, 2011).
The non-fatal offences against the person have been subjected to frequent criticism. Explain and discuss these criticisms and suggest what reforms might be desirable. The Offences against the person Act 1861 covers non-fatal offences. Actual Bodily Harm (ABH) is Section 47 of this Act. The Actus Reus needed is ABH, defined in case law as anything that interferes with the health or comfort of the victim.
“Hospital-acquired infection” (HAI) is a serious and prevalent issue in today’s healthcare field. The Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital finds this issue to be grave and is doing all that they can to eradicate HAI for good. Hospital-acquired infections are infections that come about during the course of the hospitalization and treatment, but were not present when the patient was admitted to the hospital. According to the CDC, hospital-acquired infections show up “48 to 72 hours after admission or 10 days after discharge” (Collins, n.d.). The reason for this window of time for the infection to develop is because hospitals try to have the duration of hospital stays decreased.
Case Study on Interwest Healthcare Shanair Mills Saint Leo University Case Study on Interwest Healthcare In this case study there are a few things that happened that might have caused the problem. The entire approach to the corrective training of data entry was not done tactfully. We are told that, “the hospital staffs are not being careful when entering data into the firm’s management system” (Brickley, Smith, &Zimmerman, 2009, p. 38). Manzoni is the CEO and gets the reports so she can verify that there is an issue. Singh should not have had to convince Manzoni that a problem exists.
What details can individuals repress and not be compelled to divulge to others ? Accessibility is concerned with what data does an individual or a corporation have a right to attain, in what circumstances and with what precautions ? Samples of recent cases that detail these ethical breaches are detailed below. “On April 30, 2009, the Virginia Department of Health Professions found that the secure website of its prescription monitoring program had been hijacked and the home page replaced with a ransom demand” (Smith, 2013, p. 78). This particular and jarring debacle had to do with accessibility to patient files and the privacy expected when it involves information contained in patient files.
However, there are many pros and cons to each side of the argument. Physician-assisted suicide is unethical based on the Hippocratic Oath, but is ethical based on the patient’s views – which sometimes outweigh the morals of a physician. Physician-assisted suicide first became an issue when our society decided that it was neither moral nor ethical for a physician to help end a terminally ill patient’s life. According to Katie Pickert, Dr. Jack Kevorkian brought lots of attention to the topic during the “epic assisted suicide battle of the 1990s” (1). People who argue with Kevorkian for physician-assisted suicide feel that by helping a patient end his or her life peacefully is helpful to family and friends.
Where clearly has brought a difficult situation to the healthcare team of the hospital raising ethical and legal issues in all aspects due to the fact that the parents of the pregnant teen have refused any assistance and the nurse assigned has complied silently. This scenario compromises patient safety and puts the minor and child in medical danger. Not only are the lives of the minor and the teen in danger but also it raises an ethical issue of the hospital and patients’ rights. It would make sense to attempt to provide all medical attention necessary to promote patient safety for the sake of the minor and unborn child but also it is important to evaluate the legal liability of the hospital to determine if the parents have all the rights and responsibility in decision making for their daughter. Therefore, treating all patients fairly is an ethical duty of the hospital and staff with respect to values and beliefs.
Knowledge of pressure ulcer prevalence. Knowing the stages of pressure ulcers, repositioning the patient every two hours, and not replacing him back onto his back when putting back to bed would have helped the nurse and CNA prevent one with this patient. Restraint prevalence knowledge by the nurse of when to use restraints and the proper management of patients in restraints. Patient satisfaction is another nursing sensitive indicator not taken into account here because of the nurse’s attitude towards the wrong diet being delivered and not keeping Mr. J.’s daughter informed of the incident and how it was remedied. The remark the nurse made was also inappropriate and shows she did not have the patient or family’s satisfaction in mind.