Amputation Nightmare Angie Simpson, RN HCS 478 November 4, 2013 Fran Mieczowski Amputation Nightmare It would be a nightmare to wake up from surgery with the wrong limb amputated or the wrong surgery performed. This is exactly what happened to Joseph Benson. He went into the hospital for surgery for amputation of his left leg just below the knee. When he woke up from surgery he awakened to find out his right leg had been amputated instead. The hospital has not officially commented on this but has had other issues recently from “nursing shortages and union problems” (Lowel, 2013).
You could be a what society calls it a Goth and you could be in a sexual hospital and the nurse seeing you has to accept how you present yourself and respect your individuality. (1) Discrimination could lead to the individual or group not wanting or not knowing the services provide for them, restricting their opportunities. A nurse might have forgotten or done intentionally not told the health and social care user about the services that they can use this is called restricted
The plaintiff appealed. The issue on appeal was whether the defendant was negligent and breached the standard of care. The plaintiff alleged that leaving a sponge inside of her body following surgery was a breach of the standard of care, and failed to properly monitor and perform a proper operation, which resulted it to heal wrong. Plaintiff also held that the doctor should also be held liable because the nurse was under his control and supervision. The defendant alleged that the circulating nurse was responsible for the sponge count, and was not liable because the nurse did not count the sponges under his direct
This was a cruel and diabolic mistreatment of vulnerable individuals unable to defend themselves. Where were the staff who should have been reporting these crimes to management , if management was not listening then they should have been reported to the authorities and organisations, such as social services and cqc that is what they are there for. The staff who didn`t abuse patients but didn`t report the incidents are just as abusive and responsible, as they were employed to help with patient’s welfare. Two carers were moving a patient from a bed to a chair using a hoist. They placed the hoist sling underneath the patient and then attached it to the hoist.
The patient is a minor and may not comprehend the severity of her diagnosis. The nurse as an adult needs to tell the parents so that the patient does not experience harm. The principle of autonomy is another principle that I would use to justify my position in this case. Autonomy is the ability of a patient to give informed consent and make their own decisions (University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, 2008). Because this patient is a minor she is not mature enough to understand all of the implications of her diagnosis and treatment.
INTENTIONAL TORT In an intentional tort, the person wants to cause the consequences from his/her act or believes that the consequences of the act are reasonably certain to occur (as opposed to being negligent where the injury was not necessarily intended). I chose the case of COLLINS v. THAKKAR, 552 N.E.2d 507 (1990). Kathy Collins is alleging a three count complaint against Pravin Thakkar, M.D. based upon theories of wrongful abortion, assault and battery, and intentional infliction of emotional distress alleges "torts" "based on health care or professional services rendered ... by a health care provider, to a patient." Collins alleges in her complaint that after becoming Thakkar’s patient in March, 1984, her relationship with him developed into a social relationship involving periodic sexual intercourse.
Benson as negligence. Keeping in mind the definitions of negligence, gross-negligence and malpractice, I would have to argue that Mr. Benson’s case is one of malpractice. The defining fact that Mr. Benson was injured at the hands of a medical professional makes this an issue of malpractice rather than negligence. Mr. Benson’s injury was a direct result of a medical professional failing to act in “accordance with the prevailing professional standards” (Guido, p.93). The circumstances surrounding how the incorrect extremity was amputated was not clearly identified, but the doctrine of res ipsa loquitor – “the thing speaks for itself” – can be applied in this instance (Guido, 2010).
It is the failure to meet a standard of care or standard of conduct that is recognized by a profession reaches the level of malpractice when a client or patient is injured or damaged because of error. Medical malpractice is professional negligence by act or omission by a health care provider in which the treatment provided falls below the accepted standard of practice in the medical community and causes injury or death to the patient, with most cases involving medical error. It usually involves an alleged tort of negligence (states the party who acted wrongfully is liable for damages to the injured party). Criminal negligence is the failure to use reasonable care to avoid consequences that threaten or harm the safety of the public and that are the foreseeable outcome of acting in a particular manner. Unlike the tort of Negligence, a person who is convicted of criminal negligence is subject to a fine, imprisonment, or both, because of the status of the conduct as a
During this it was considered that the compliant but incapacitated adults in care homes & hospitals might be deprived of their liberty in the meaning of the convention. This resulted in the amendment of the mental capacity act of 2005 to contain the deprivation of liberty safeguards. The purpose of the deprivation of liberty safeguards also known as DOLS was to protect the interests of extremely vulnerable groups of individuals and to ensure people are given care in the least restrictive way, prevent arbitrary decisions that deprive vulnerable people of their liberty and provide them with the rights to challenge against any unlawful detention. This applies to anyone over the age of eighteen, who as a mental disorder, who lack the capacity to consent to the arrangement made for their care and whom a deprivation of liberty may be necessary in their best interests to protect them from
He had been on the waiting list for a liver since he was born. After waiting 24 years on the waiting list he died a slow and horrible death that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. His skin was bright yellow like he was glowing, and so were his eyes. He was in agonizing pain, and had to go through dialysis to filter his blood. I have seen what the effects of not having enough organs in surplus for the people that actually need them.