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Mar 22, 2022 · Former nurse RaDonda Vaught is on trial on charges of reckless homicide. Her case raises consequential questions about how nurses use computerized medication-dispensing cabinets.
May 2, 2022 · But after hearing about the highly publicized verdict handed down in the case of RaDonda Vaught, a Nashville nurse whose medication error led to the death of a 75-year-old woman, as well as ...
Mar 31, 2023 · Physicians and nurses are keenly aware of the recent RaDonda Vaught case, in which a nurse was convicted of criminally negligent homicide for a medication error, though flawed hospital-based ...
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An 82-year-old man is brought to the emergency department with altered mental status, fever, and cough after being found on the street. He cannot be identified and is presumed to be homeless. He is admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for severe pneumonia with developing acute respiratory distress syndrome, and he requires intubation. After hi...
Respect for patient autonomy is a core value in medical ethics and forms the cornerstone of the modern patient-physician relationship.3 At its heart lies the right of patients to make decisions concerning their own medical treatment, even to the detriment of their own health. This principle requires patients to provide informed consent for any trea...
An important purpose of documenting an error is facilitating identification of areas of improvement for both the practitioners directly involved and the hospital system as a whole.8 It is for this reason that latent errors (less obvious failures of an organization or system that contribute to human errors or to accidents waiting to happen) and “nea...
In contrast to documentation, a process largely independent of patient or surrogate involvement, error disclosure can be complicated by a lack of persons to whom the physician could otherwise express contrition and sympathy. During a disclosure process, a physician could inform the patient or—if he or she lacks decision-making capacity—an available...
What constitutes adequate rectification of an error can be an ongoing source of ethical and clinical consideration, but, for purposes of discussion here, rectification can be construed as a restorative process related to either a harmed patient (by minimizing his or her discomfort) or, in the case of a patient’s death, memories of that patient. Unf...
In cases in which an error is made in the care of an unrepresented patient, the absence of a surrogate does not preclude the clinician’s ethical responsibilitiesto document, disclose, and, insofar as possible, rectify the mistake. As suggested here, the obligations of physicians and their organizations to an unrepresented patient are not all that d...
- Ryan G. Chiu
- 2019
Nurses often are being seen as compassionate helpers. The public image of nursing, however, also consists of stereotypes such as nursing being a 'doing' profession and care being a 'female' characteristic.
- Margreet van der Cingel, Jasperina Brouwer
- 2021
Dec 9, 2020 · The work nurses have done during the COVID-19 outbreak has been arduous, as well as a risk to their personal health, but they have persevered - here are some of their stories.
Jul 18, 2023 · A recent article titled “Should nurses with doctorates be called doctor? Lawsuit targets Calif. rule,” reported on litigation filed by Jacqueline Palmer against the California attorney general for the right to call herself “doctor.”
