Nightingale Community Hospital Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for the Sentinel Event Report that happened on September 14 at 0900. 1) SENTINEL EVENT Tina, a 3 year old minor was admitted to the hospital OR for a bilateral myringotomy, an outpatient surgery, which was expected to last approximately 45 minutes. Following surgery, Tina would be transferred to recovery to be monitored for approximately 1 hour. Tina’s mother informed the pre-op nurse that she needed to run an errand involving Tina’s older sibling and she would leave as soon as Tina was taken into surgery. The mother stated she would return in time to pick Tina up as soon as she was released from recovery.
Steward was no longer in the bathroom, Ms. Harris went to the nurse's station and requested to use the phone. She would told by a nurse that she would have to wait until regular hours. Ms. Harris then went into the room of another patient , Rozanna Moore and confided in her that she had been raped. Ms. Moore testified that Ms. Harris was shaking, upset, and in hysterics. While Rachelle Harris left to give a specimen, Mr.
After being sent home from the emergency room and I had to send her back not even two hours later because something was wrong. My mom got admitted into St. Luke’s Hospital for Serotonin Syndrome. Serotonin Syndrome is a life threatening drug reaction that is caused from too much of the same medicine (which also means the body having too much Serotonin). Serotonin Syndrome was caused by the Emergency Department, not paying attention to her everyday medicine and giving her something she was already on. My mom’s health was all over the place.
My shift started at 7 a.m. There was a patient needed to be admitted during the shift change and I volunteered to do the admission even though it was not my turn to be admitted. As soon as I entered the room I saw the patient having shortness of birth and complaints of chest pain. I monitored the vital signs and was too high (above 200 systolic). The patient has a history of diabetics and hypertension and she is ESRD.
Mnany States in Mexico Crack Down on Abortion Adriana Zehbrauskas for The New York Times Yolanda Martínez, one of eight women imprisoned on homicide charges in Guanajuato, Mexico, talked with reporters after she was freed this month. GUANAJUATO, Mexico — The woman came into the hospital, bleeding, scared and barely out of her teens. But before anyone would treat her, the authorities had to be called. In Guanajuato, Maria Márquez awaited the release of her daughter, one of eight women held. Doctors believed that she had had an illegal abortion, so first, a man from the prosecutor’s office had to arrive and ask her about her sexual history.
After he left, Harris tried to use the phone at the nurse’s station, but was told that she need to wait until regular hours, so, Harris went to another patient’s room, Rozanna Moore, and told her what had happened. Stewart went to Moore’s room, while Harris was giving a specimen, trying to get her to calm Harris down. Moore asked him to get her a phone, which he did and then de disappeared from the floor. Moore phoned her mother, who contacted Harris’s mother. When she went to the hospital a rape test was done on Harris by Dr. Isabelle L. Ochsner, which showed that there wasn’t any
Her skull was broken and she was rushed to the hospital. After this accident she told her family that she was seeing things and that she wanted to be checked into a mental hospital. She was released less than a year later.
When did it happen? If within 120 hours of sexual assault, go to an emergency room for a sexual assault exam, preferably a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) designated hospital. Who is the alleged abuser? If appropriate, ask obvious questions of the alleged abuser about what happened such as why he/she is two hours late arriving back from an appointment with the individual. Do gather and document basic information on the alleged victim and alleged abuser, as reported.
I had not planned on completing my observation when I did, but I got the feeling I was in the right place at the right time. My five-year-old daughter had been sick with a stuffy nose, coughing, and a fever so I called the doctor’s office for an appointment. The receptionist told me they were all booked up but to bring my daughter and she could be a work-in to see a doctor when one was available. My daughter and I arrived at her doctor’s office around 10:30am on Thursday, November 14, 2013. I signed her in at the desk and we took a seat in the waiting room between two tables with magazines.
Multiple Sclerosis May 1, 2012 Sixteen year old female wakes up the morning of her homecoming and was blurry in her left eye. Her mother eventually set up an appointment with her pediatrician, who sent her to the eye doctor. From there, doctors ordered an MRI, and sent her to a different hospital. She went through three spinal taps, finally being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. (Guest Josephinez, 2011) Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord).