Scenario: A 38 year old patient came to the emergency department after several d

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Scenario: A 38 year old patient came to the emergency department after several days of cold symptoms. He now has a runny nose, mild fever, and cough. He has not seen his private physician. He was triaged by the ED nurse as non-emergent and sent to wait in the lobby since all non-emergent beds were full.

Two hours later he collapses in the lobby from a heart attack and dies.

DQ1: Suggest anything the nurse could have done differently in this situation, then describe any provision that may have prevented this death from occurring. Finally, what is the liability to the facility in this situation?

Explanation / Answer

Nurses need to cooperate and play a crucial role in ensuring patients has reasonable prospect and perceives and comprehends all the appropriate information about their health related care and if feasible patients should be enthusiastically involved in making decisions about their care rather than just being passive recipient.

All hospital members will have their individual tasks to complete to ensure the patient waiting is quickly attended and gets immediately the needed medical aid. Putting in correct order the outcome emerging from patient check up nurses can make sure by reviewing the progress and accordingly converse as required with the relatives, bed administrators and care teams depending on the complication of patient care.

Nurses must be clinically capable and knowledgeable to comprehend and foresee the complication of comprehensive patient condition and should be talented enough to examine the patient and manage the state of affairs intelligently.

In order to be successful in a medical unprofessional conduct in a court case proceedings foremost patient must be able to establish that the doctor’s carelessness and inattention was the ground for the probable damage. This can be difficult and complicated in a medical unprofessional conduct court case where the only supposed fault is one concerning a delay in treatment.

However the ill-treated patient needs to explain that not only did the delay in treatment augmented to the level of carelessness, inattention and disregard but the delay was also the reason for deterioration and aggravation of the patient's condition thus as a consequence compensation is obligatory.

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