Drug Omission And Wrong Dose / Overdose

combination of paper and electronic media is used to maintain the medical records for a particular patient. These errors mostly include omission and duplication of tasks due to miscommunication among physician and can pose serious danger to patients. For an example, there are situation where events classified as wrong-medication errors, included reports of potential overdoses related to miscommunication as to whether a patient had already received a medication or not. The physician writes an order for

ethically wrong or not, as human beings, we cannot let a person suffer from a terminal disease while having euthanasia in our hands as the answer to end the pain. Euthanasia is often confused with assisted suicide. Even though assisted suicide is used as another term for euthanasia, they are very distinct actions commonly misunderstood. In assisted suicide the physician intentionally gives either information or means or both required to commit suicide. This includes discussing about lethal doses of drugs

emerges, risking patient safety include: errors of omission, errors of commission, administrations errors and diagnosing errors. All of these mistakes involve mistaken actions, such as: getting an infection due to surgery or contaminated equipment’s, operation on the wrong leg, overdosing a patient and death due to improper diagnosis (James 2013). Specifically, errors of commission are when “mistaken action harms a patient either because it was the wrong action or it was the right action but performed

Diamorphine is used for pain control and known as an opioid Controlled Drug [CD], acting by blocking pain signals to the brain (BNF, 2015; NICE, 2016). Opioid medication is licenced for the management of moderate to severe pain however, long-term use can cause reliance of the drug yet when used to treat a terminal illness, there are no restrictions (Knott, 2013; Nice, 2016). Morphine’s most common side effects include nausea and vomiting, sedation, constipation, hypotension and sweating however,

follow the protocol regarding medication administration and conducted poor handover, therefore this resulted in wrong dosage of insulin. Manias, Kinney, Cranswick, and Williams (2014) reported that overdose and dose omission were prevalent among hospitalised children in an Australian children’s hospital. According to Chu (2016), disregard of the five rights; right drug, right patient, right dose, right time and right route are contributing factors in medication errors. In the scenario one, misconduct

Other types of human errors include a mistake-an action procedure, where a healthcare provider carries out a planned procedure but it fails to meet expected outcome. If the decision the healthcare provider makes after the outcome of the procedure is wrong, the risk to the health and safety of a patient increases (Armitage, 2009b). In the healthcare system, workplace factors combine with these human types of errors to increase the likelihood of an error occurring. These workplace factors include inappropriate

allow the woman to have her wish and take her own life?    Many people think the act of assisted suicide and euthanasia are the same, but they are different.  Euthanasia, either voluntary or involuntary, is the intentional killing by act or omission of a dependent human being for his or her alleged benefit. The key word here is "intentional". If death is not intended, it is not an act of euthanasia.   When the person who is killed has requested to be killed, this is an act of voluntary euthanasia

In 5th century BCE, a Greek philosopher named Hippocrates wrote the phrase “I will not give a drug that is deadly to anyone if asked [for it], nor will suggest the ways to such a counsel”(Miles, 2004). This passage is apart of a written document that is now known as the Hippocratic Oath (Appendix A). The philosophers of ancient Greece were aware of the medical predicaments that a physician would ultimately face while practicing medicine. Today, the oath has become an ethical code for the physicians

killing of oneself." Doctor-assisted suicide combines both of these definitions with the idea of a physician helping a terminally ill patient to die. Doctors can perform euthanasia by giving a patient a lethal injection or by prescribing a lethal dose of drugs (“Euthanasia”). Active euthanasia is actually taking proactive measures to help a person die. Opposite active euthanasia which is defined as "allowing to die," and is used to describe a decision to withhold treatment, remove life support, etc.

involuntary manslaughter, other than unlawful act manslaughter, was the same as that of the statutory offence (now repealed) of causing death by reckless driving, that is, that the fault required was Lawrence recklessness, as set out above subject to the omission of any reference to a risk of causing damage to property. There had to be a risk of physical injury to some other person [Kong Cheuck Kwnan]. According to this controversial decision of the House of Lords in Seymour, the Lawrence direction was 'comprehensive