Ethical Issues In Health And Social Care

University Hospital is a well known hospital with a level 1 trauma treatment center for the tri-county area of a northwestern state, the hospital enjoys the fact they are known for their promising reputation among healthcare professionals and the public they serve. Jan Adams is an OR supervisor that has been working there for ten years, as a professional she makes surgeons follow protocol as required and enjoys working with trauma patients. One Friday night, which is the busiest day of the week for the trauma department; the unit was notified that a helicopter was on its way with a 42 year old man who had been in a car accident. Shortly after the patient arrived to the trauma center, the resident and other medical staff noted that he was in very bad physical conditions, needed immediate surgery or otherwise he was going to die. The issue was that the on call surgeon had to be present during the surgery and had not yet arrived, but regardless of the matter and protocol they proceeded with medically treating the patient immediately. The concern is that in doing so they violated medical procedures and put the patients safety at risk, this lead to a long list of ethical issues for example, patient well-being, impaired healthcare professional, adherence to professional codes of ethical conduct, adherence to the organization’s mission statement, ethical standards, and values statements, management’s role and responsibility, failure

Bayada feels the need to micromanage and “direct” our Direct Support Professionals. 7/23/17 I was told by Fem that “nurses” are complaining about me, stating that I am not “doing my job”. She even went as far telling me what my responsibilities and duties are, as if I don’t already know. No other nurse at this house has made a complaint about me regarding my work ethics at Baynard or any other subject regarding Baynard. I don’t know which “nurses” she was reffering to. However, Baynard is a small home with a lot of staff from both companies, all of which are grown. From my understanding, Bayada is not responsible for issuing orders to our staff regarding Baynard, if it does not relate to the direct care of our individuals. There is always an issue about how the beds are made, the way other staff work and what time to do laundry. All of which do not relate to the care of the

times, dirty clothing or bed linen, misuse of medication, lack of care plans, lack of heating, staff entering into service users’ rooms

At that time, I was just a student nurse and had yet to realize the consequences of this unethical practice. However, as a manager equipped with the knowledge of the ethical and legal dilemmas of a slow code, my actions today would be different. Involving the ethics committee in these cases would be encouraged. According to Pozgar (2007), “An ethics committee in the health care setting is a multidisciplinary committee that serves as a hospital resource to patients, families, and staff, offering an objective counsel when facing difficult health care issues and decisions.” As a

If a patient or carer wants to complain I would see if I could deal with it personally. If I was unable to resolve the issue, I would advise them to call or email PALS the hospital complaints department.

Pennhurst was the heart of the “Human Rights Movement” that revolutionized America’s approach to health care for mentally and physically handicapped. Like many similar facilities of that era, Pennhurst functioned almost completely independently from the rest of society. Pennhurst produced its own food, operated its own power plant, and policed its own grounds. Pennhurst housed 2,791 people most of them children.Only 200 of the residence were in any type of arts, education, or recreation programs that would help them mingle in society. If there was a bully that needed taken care of then, the doctors would give him a drug that would make him the most uncomfortable but wouldn’t cause any permanent injury. There were a lot of bullies at Pennhurst that the staff knew about and didn’t do anything to stop them from bullying other patients. Such patients needed to be restrained for their own

When my mother woke up she needed the bandages on her face changed. She pressed the nurse call button many times. She set there for around 2 hours before she finally let me go find a nurse for her. As i went to go find the nurse station i seen multiple nurses standing around talking. I got one's attention and she was rude because I interrupted her story. The nurse finally came and changed the bandage. She did not ask my mom how she was feeling or if there was anything that she could help with. A couple hours later we realized her morphine pump was not working. When we notified someone it took over 6 hours to get someone to fix the pump.

They were not respected by the nurses, which lead to the patients not respecting each other

The reporting party (RP) stated resident Milagros Wrenn DOB: 7/17/32 was brought to the emergency room by administrator Frances Soriano. The RP stated the resident was quickly released from the emergency room and the facility was contacted. When contacted the administrator refuse to retrieve the resident from the hospital. Additionally the administrator refuses to allow the resident's return to the

Lack of personal hygiene, unchanged linens, trash can odors, and unclean cafeterias have been reported as well. Verbal abuse and neglecting the patient are also common (McNamee 2006).

Then I received a new admit with telemetry I had to give that patient away to get this new telemetry patient. This patient was from skilled nursing facility (SNF). The patient was being admitted with pneumonia and sepsis. When received patient from the emergency room, who had multiple wounds to whole body. Literally it took me and certified nurse’s aides one hour take pictures, due to patient being confused and combative with us. It was fourteen hundred (1400) not gone to lunch. The charge nurse could not help me or watch my patients, was busy with transferring patients to another facility. And we did not have a break relief nurse. Hospital was already short staff of nurses. They called nurses come in, but unfortunately no one came. With having high acuity patients’, not enough nursing staff, and having exposure to this stress over time leads to nursing burnout. With the Affordable Care Act the health care has experienced an increase in the number of new patients’ in the emergency room. Some of these patients that are coming into the emergency rooms have chronic illnesses that were ignored and now require more care. Due to increase in patients the wait times and patient loads have also increased for nurses and

The parties involved in the case were all knowledgeable about the responsibility of a social worker. Since the two ladies are social workers and Celia being an intern social worker student; they are all aware of the NASW code of ethics they should be following with their patients and at their worksite. When Celia overheard the nurses talking to the patients with disrespect, she reported the matter to her supervisor. Sadly, this type of disrespect to the patients happen two more times, and no one addressed to the nurse staff.

While I was reading this article, I was appalled that the hospital staff would treat a senior woman with such disrespect. The staff possessed a complete disregard to her wants and needs that, as a patient, she has the rights to. One thing that particularly bothered me was that the one intern kid was calling her “Doll” and “Grannie” along with other names that showed a lack of respect for her. One would think that pretty much the first thing you do when meeting a patient would be to ask them what they like to be called by. People shouldn’t call others names that they would be offended by, especially if they hold seniority over them. I also was flustered by how many tests they performed on her when they didn’t even know her diagnosis. They even

A charge nurse sounded the Code alarm for “missing resident” at about 4 PM when two residents could not be found for dinner. No one noticed missing residents until dinner time, both with dementia and several other health issues. Administrators and the police were notified. Fortunately, both were found by police in a park approximately two miles away from the nursing home. Less than two weeks later, against all odds, another disabled resident eloped from second floor through his assigned room window. He was an 88 year old WWII veteran who went through second floor window and jumped from balcony with Foley catheter still attached. Fortunately, he did not injured and police found him in the area while he was riding a bicycle which he picked up

Background: Two staff are seen carrying the old woman and throwing her onto her bed. (YouTube) A nursing home along Braddell Road has been suspended from admitting new patients with effect from 12 April after a patient was reported to have been mistreated. The incident at Nightingale Nursing Home came to light after a video of a patient being mistreated was sent to local broadcaster Mediacorp. The footage was shot by a hidden camera on a patient's bedside. In the video, an elderly woman patient is seen sitting stark naked beside a bed with the room ceiling fans on. She is then picked up by two hospital staff and thrown onto a bed, before a staff is shown slapping her on her mouth when she wailed in pain. Reports say the patient has been a resident there for four years and is suffering from stroke. The Ministry of Health (MOH) said it has suspended the nursing home from admitting new patients from 12 April until further notice. The nursing home has also disciplined the staff involved and put in place additional measures such as ward rounds by senior staff, regular meetings with patients and their family members, and management check on staff conduct and patients In a statement to Yahoo! Singapore, a MOH spokesperson said, investigations into the video recording show "significant lapses in the care standards" to the patient in question. "This should not have happened. There should have been tighter supervision of staff rendering care to vulnerable patients. Patient's dignity