A -- A carotid bruit #2 Due to Nancy's deteriorating condition she is referred to a neurologist. The emergency room nurse realizes that she has probably suffered from a left-sided brain attack. What clinical manifestation further supports this assessment? D -- Global Aphasia #3 What nursing intervention should the nurse implement when preparing Nancy for a noncontrast CT scan? B -- Explain that the client will not be able to move her head thoughout the CT scan #4 The neurologist also prescribes a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the head STAT, why?
"Your whole body is in excruciating pain." Castanada was eventually transferred to the University of California Irvine's burn unit, where doctors said over 70 percent of her body was damaged, Corona said. She's undergone several surgeries over the past few weeks, but her feet are still blistering. Zeichner said he sees it most often with antibiotics, but MacKinnon said this sometimes fatal reaction is different from most reactions to antibiotics, which are usually limited to gastrointestinal symptoms. "Unfortunately, we have no way of predicting who would have this type reaction," Zeichner said, advising that patients only take prescriptions given to them by their doctors.
Yes, the should because they did not proximately cause Mr. Smith’s death. III. “To state a cause of action one must establish the defendant owed a duty of care, that defendant breaached the duty, and it proximately caused the death.” In the Espinoza case, the crew’s actions caused the Plaintiff’s death. The issue on appeal was whether their act was the proximate cause of the death. The trial court found that it was not, and granted the defendant summary judgment.
The Principle of Autonomy Applied to the Case Study of Victoria Selbstmord In society, people rely heavily on health care professionals to cure a disease or sickness they may have. One can have a peace of mind knowing that although they are sick, there is hope for a cure by seeing a physician. However, what would happen if a physician decided to not treat patients based on their lifestyle decisions? This happened in the case of Victoria Selbstmord, a fifty five year old woman whose lifestyle choices severely affected her asthma condition. According to Ms. Selbstmord’s physician, the choices she made such as owning cats, the family drama she participated in, and the cigarettes she smoked daily worsened her condition.
The nurse in the article made an unethical decision to bring home the patient private information and disclose it with her husband. The decision that the nurse made affected the clinic she worked. Sometimes it takes for one person to be at fault and jeopardize the whole organization. The nurse unethical behavior led to her termination of employment
D) Global aphasia. Diagnostic Tests The neurologist writes a diagnosis of, "Suspected brain attack" and prescribes a noncontrast computed tomography (CT) scan STAT. 4. Which nursing intervention should the nurse implement when preparing Nancy and her daughter for this
Keshia Warnken Case Project Professor Howard Hammer Case Project Part One- Table Part Two Theories Negligence/Hospital Negligence Negligence is a tort. “Tort” means a legal wrong, breach of duty, or negligent or unlawful act or omission proximately causing injury or damage to another (Ind. Ann. Code $ 34-18-2-28).Negligence is defined as a failure to exercise that degree of care that a person of ordinary prudence would exercise under like circumstances; or as conduct that creates an undue risk of harm to others; the negligence theory of liability protects interests related to safety or freedom from physical harm(21 Ind. Law Encyc.
In order to find out what happened to her sister Elsie, Deborah and Rebecca went to visit Crownsville where Elsie was staying before she died. Crownsville was a psychiatric hospital for African-Americans. Deborah wanted to see her sister’s medical record and investigate how she was being treated there. When she was there, she found out that they included Elsie in a study entitled, “Pneumoencephalographic and skull X-ray studies in 100 Epileptics”. This involved draining fluid from the skull to obtain clearer images of the brain.
Current California Tort Law Dubbed by Prosser the "little brother of conversion," the tort of trespass to chattels allows recovery for interferences with possession of personal property "not sufficiently important to be classed as conversion, and so to compel the defendant to pay the full value of the thing with which he has interfered." (Prosser & Keeton, Torts (5th ed.1984) § 14, pp. 85-86.) Though not amounting to conversion, the defendant's interference must, to be actionable, have caused some injury to the chattel or to the plaintiff's rights in it. Under California law, trespass to chattels "lies where an intentional interference with the possession of personal property has proximately caused injury."
They believed that , although they knew of the allegations , they were being dealt with through the local safeguarding process with a number of agencies. The report on Castlebeck Care Ltd stated there was a “systemic failure to protect vulnerable people in its care”. The CQC found many incidents of unsafe practice that Castlebeck failed to report, 4 occasions where a patient had absconded, physical violence between a patient and family , a staff member restraining a patient with a pillow . Other breaches include failure to ensure safe use of medications, they did not vet staff properly and a failure in their complaints