Since the patient is in critical condition, the decision is based on her beliefs and wishes. She can undergo emergency surgery, if the nurse decides what’s best for the patient. The person or persons who are most affected in the situation is the patient, the unborn baby, the husband, and the health care team. The team thought it was best to perform a blood transfusion and an emergency C-section. Define the difference between capacity and competence. Capacity is “The ability to understand the nature and effect of one’s acts. The determination to be made is whether an individual has the ability to understand the nature and effect of his or her acts in a specific moment in time. Capacity refers to an assessment of the individual's psychological
Burditts behalf. Although he had indicated that the transfer was to ensure that the unborn baby would have the availability of an “advanced neonatal unit” if required (Lewin, 1991, para 10). Had the infant required specialized care, he or she could have been flown in a helicopter to the nearest location with a neonatal unit. In addition, this act prevents hospitals from discharging, transferring, or refusing treatment to those women who are in active labor. Dr. Burditt stated that the patient was in active labor and continued to transfer the patient with her being high risk with her blood pressure.
This is a loophole to some people because doctors can say they need to remove the baby when the mother isn’t in danger or not in a stable condition.
Lie on the table: leave item to be considered instead at the next meeting (see table)
Your child will be moved to the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU). He or she may need to stay in the hospital for a few days while he or she recovers.
The presence of fetal heart tones makes the patient ineligible for induction due to gestational age and lack of maternal indications of infection. Induction would cause the patient to be responsible for all incurred costs or the hospital would have to absorb the cost of treatment due to Medicaid refusal to pay for services. The nurse in charge of caring for the patient has the potential for ethical dilemma due to personal beliefs concerning abortion or induction of labor with the presence of fetal heart tones in a nonviable fetus. Uncertainty exists on nursing care in the case of induction with fetal heart tones and whether this constitutes induced
In the case of Mrs. S, after losing consciousness from the overwhelming medication, she is now considered an incompetent patient, someone who cannot make decisions on their own due to lack of competency. In view of the fact that she is unconscious, she is in need of an advance directive, treatment rather than a proxy. With this, her son, assuming her husband is deceased, now has to make life changing choices for her because he next in the chain of surrogacy. Although she has previously declined advanced treatment, her son can now make any decision he wants. By following her wishes, she would follow God’s will for her life and die within a two-week period, but the son does not want to let go of his mother yet, which would result in amputating
Ultimately, the choice of whether a mother should be forced to keep a child that does not want or cannot care for should be up to the mother until three-weeks after fertilization. After three-weeks’ time, the fetus is alive and should not be cut short of a life due to its
The meaning of capacity in this situation refers to somebody that’s under severe influence of drugs or alcohol, somebody that’s asleep, or somebody who may be young or have learning disabilities. Why is the vague
Both mom and child’s urine tested positive for amphetamines and Camellia also tested positive for meth amphetamines. The child did not have any known complications at delivery. Ms. Godwin became very emotional when confronted with the allegations and denied taking any kind of medications or drugs. The child’s father was present and stated he would take the blame because he sent Tobi to a friend’s home to pick up his clothes; the friends used meth and Tobi made contact. The reporter stated that the unknown father was emotional as well and took responsibility for the positive meth in Tobi’s
The Five Sociological Institutions: The Evolving Society. Haylie M. Galvan Wichita State University Introduction Throughout history there has been several institutions that has greatly influenced the development of our society. A social institution is defined as a complex and integrated set of social norms organized around the protection of the basis of societal value. All the institutions has a specific purpose and duty that it does for the people.
life threatening situations. At around 15 – 20 weeks gestation, women are given the option to undergo
There is a legitimate and significant difference between this case and typical abortion. In most cases of typical abortion, the mother chooses to abort the baby because she can’t take care of it. In this case, the mother can take care of it if she was healthy enough to have it, but in order to be healthy enough, she needs to receive chemo, but the chemo will kill the baby. The mother in this situation can’t control the outcome of this. The typical abortion mother can control the outcome. She can save the baby. She doesn’t have to choose whether to allow herself to die or the baby. She can have the baby adopted by a couple who wants it. There are other options then
Compared to the general adult population the maternal airway management can be more challenging as changes during pregnancy can increase the difficulty of intubation (Brien and Conlon, 2013). Its makes hard to insert laryngoscope when the patient have a large breast, the chance of bleeding and swelling increases due to oedema and vascularity of the upper respiratory tract, and the patient desaturate quicker as there is increase in oxygen requirements and there is reduced in functional residual capacity (Mushambi et al, 2015). As a result of all the changes during pregnancy, if the problems encountered during the intubation of Mrs D were to happen to an obstetric patient, it is important to provide optimal surgical condition for to progress rapidly while aiming for a good neonatal outcome (Local theatre policy, 2015b). In obstetric patients, much of the issue is about the urgency with which the foetus must be delivered and the surgical operation must be done as quickly as possible - therefore making decisions in the event of certain clinical situations occurring will require a much quicker decision making process because there is an immediate threat to the life of the woman or foetus (Mushambi et al, 2015). This is why emergency obstetric anaesthesia is such a potentially hazardous
Capacity in operations decisions is making sure that the process has the right amount of space and proper staffing to maintain the business
In the case of the CNM who delivered a 35 week breeched infant, several factors need