Paradise Hills Medical Center Case Study

Awareness should be built among the doctors and nurses on the risks of medical errors owing to miscommunications. This can be done by periodically doing policy review sessions on patient safety.

Sule stated that, “The Patient Bill of Right adopted by American Hospitals Association states that ‘a patient possesses the right to be informed of the medical consequences of his or her actions and decisions and refuse treatment to the extent permitted by the law’. However, this is true only if the patient is in position to understand the consequences of his treatment. Incompetent, senile patients neither have the correct judgment regarding which treatment is appropriate for them, nor are they in a state of understanding the implications of their treatment. In such case, their willingness to grant or deny consent cannot dictate the course of treatment.” Problem with the Act is being able to find that the patient component enough to make such a call. Another issue that Sule stated was on confidentiality and autonomy. According to Sule, “This is another ethical issue erupting from the conflict of patient's rights and professional ethics in nursing job and profession. The Patient Bill of Right makes it mandatory for the medical practitioners to reveal the form and extent of the ailment along with the course of treatment to be undertaken by the practitioners. However, this law of autonomy clashes with the nursing ethic that the professional should maintain high degree of confidentiality regarding the patient's health and treatment.” This can cause conflicting issues in the NP’s

Legally and ethically under Informed consent a patient has the right to refuse specialty treatment or referral but needs to be informed about the risks involved with delay or lack of the specific treatment recommended. Mostly, if the patient does agree to visit the specialist then, the specialist is responsible for the informed consent for the specific treatment. But is has been contested and help in courts that the primary care physician still is responsible for the patients welfare in all phases of treatment. For a provider in a busy practice it is difficult to keep track of all the referrals and at times, the specialist’s office has a different outlook on the matter.

It is the goal of all healthcare providers and organizations to provide quality care to all patients without error. The truth is, even healthcare providers make some mistakes. The question is, when an error occurs who is to be held responsible? Is it, the nurse who administered the wrong medication, due to being overworked and lack of staff to help? Or is it the Healthcare Organization (HCO), because they should have fixed the staffing issues. There are so many factors that contribute to an error. I believe each situation should be properly investigated, before placing blame where it should or should not be placed.

Many patients leave hospitals not fully healed or receive indequate care wherever they end up as with the case of Diana Turner. Diana Turner was a patient at Seaside Healthcare, a mental health facility in Lousiania. Ms. Turner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was dependent on insulin. She was released into the care of Jefferson Healthcare who gave her an overdose of insulin which led to her death. Ms. Turner's daughter, Jamie Broussard, claims Seaside Healthcare should have known that Jefferson Healthcare wasn't qualified to administer insulin shots and filed a lawsuit against the health care organization. Ms. Turner's death was a result of medication error which can reduced through stragetic planning and attention to detail. Every medical facility has a moral obligation to avoid serious mistakes like medication error or negligence. The behavioral health center has an ethical responsibility to make sure accidents like medication error never happen. A way to ensure this would be to use technology and strict adherence to the rules and regulations. Procedures must be followed routinely so that it becomes habit to medical staff and they naturally follow protocol. Following a rountine makes the procedure easier and more natural to the staff similarly to the way a musician becomes more proficient at an instrument through practice and

The third leading cause of death in America may surprise you. Hospitals and healthcare organizations dedicate their branding to reflect a place of hope, comfort, and healing when ones health is compromised. Sadly, medical errors do exists in the realm of healthcare. The National Center for Biotechnology Information defines medical error as “an act of omission or commission in planning or execution that contributes to or could contribute to an unintended result.” Medical errors may include incorrect record keeping, administering incorrect medication to a patient, misdiagnosis, failing to remove all surgical instruments and performing surgery on the incorrect site. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality identified eight factors that contribute to the cause of medical errors. These factors include “communication problems, inadequate information flow, human problems, patient-related issues, organizational transfer of knowledge, staffing patterns, technical failures and inadequate policies and procedures.”

In the event of an adverse event or sentinel event, the attending physician will notify a risk management staff member. The risk management staff member will then notify the appropriate department manager, chief executive officer, and the attending physician of a face to face meeting to determine which event has occurred. If a sentinel or adverse event has been determined to have occurred, the attending physician will be responsible for informing the patient and/or the patient’s family of the event, and the physician will be accompanied with a designated hospital representative when disclosing this information.

At the point when patients experience harm whether from the movement of the patient's medical condition or from a few events identified with their health care delivery , they have to know. At the point when things have gone uniquely in contrast to expected, a large portion of the patients need information about what's the issue with him/her. In the event that oversights were made, they additionally need a statement of regret, and affirmation that stepes are being taken

Although the code of ethics is nominal in promoting values and principles surrounding quality patient care, it can be improved to strengthen the support of patient concerns. By reviewing the code of ethics in various hospital environments, MUHC’s code of ethics lacks a conflict of interest principle. A conflict of interest principle can assure patients they will be receiving quality care without influence from outside sources. For example, a patient may be referred to a less skill physician because of the relationship between the primary physician and the outsourced physician. This can cause lower quality of care as well as patients losing confidence in their care.

Everyone who works in the medical field can have mistakes happen to them, it makes us human. The thing that makes it negligence is when that mistakes happens over and over, or you try to cover up your mistake instead of making it known. Negligence means you fail to take proper care in a situation. In radiation many things can go wrong, for example the patient you are going to see needs an x-ray of the right hand and you x-ray the left hand, but you don't alert anyone of the mistake you made that is considered negligence. May people fail to realize the implications that come with a small error can cause a chain reaction.

Then two days later the patients has been released stating to Tom that Dr. K didn’t see nothing on the x-rays, and this Tom knows this is a lie. Tom’s feels as if he lost his ability to do the right thing and doesn’t know what to do, when he says goodbye to the patient as she exits the building unaware. Throughout this essay the ethical dilemmas, rights of the patient vs, duties of heath care providers, and a suggested decision model for Tom will all be addressed. 1) There are several ethical principles that would apply to the individuals in this situation.

Like the therac-25, another case of therapy gone wrong was associated with 5 deaths and many injuries related to a Cobalt-60 system used to treat cancer patients in Panama City. The software allowed technicians to draw on a computer screen metal plates that helped protected healthy tissue during radiation treatments. As such, some technicians found a more efficient way to line up the metal plates to target the radiation. This caused a bug in the system to instead produce two times the amount of radiation most patients where prescribed. The cause of the problem was associated with how the software calculated the dosage of radiation based on the block configuration. The configuration technicians were using had different calculated answers on

This report was requested as two separate radiation incidents occurred on the same day. The first incident involved a patient receiving a higher dose than intended, causing severe side effects. The second incident involved two patients with similar names, one of which received the other patient’s

All medical practitioners know the primary ethical principle that binds them is to maintain the sanctity of life. Their role is to prevent the occurrence of sickness and to eliminate the propagation of any disease at all costs. In order to achieve the general health of the patient the medical practitioners have to ensure all medical procedures are done to the utmost professional standards. The general assumption is that any professional administering care is educated and experienced enough to perform the tasks given. Occasionally, misdiagnosis and wrong treatment may result in injury or even death. Medical professionals have to take

Medical mistakes in the diagnosis and treatment of hospital patients are unfortunately among the most common cases of hospital malpractice seen by malpractice lawyers. Misdiagnosis of the patient's condition, improperly interpreted diagnostic tests, negligently performed surgeries and medication errors are all examples of medical negligence and can all have devastating effects on patients already admitted to a hospital with an illness or injury. This can be considered hospital malpractice.