Question

Ethics in Nursing 1. Search the internet and learn about the cases of nurses Julie Thao and Kimberly Hiatt. 2. List and discuss lessons that you and all healthcare professionals can learn from these two cases. 3. Describe how the principle of beneficence and the virtue of benevolence could be applied to these cases. 4. In addition to benevolence, which other virtues exhibited by their colleagues might have helped Thao and Hiatt? 5. Discuss personal virtues that might be helpful to second victims themselves to navigate the grieving process.

Answer 1

1 & Julie Thao - She is 16 years old and she is good obsetrics nuarse, she volunteered to work an extra shift aften working an eight- hour day shift. Due to extra slift Thao made a deadly error. She gave a patient scheduled for Induction of labore, iv bupivacaine an anesthetic Intended for epidural administration that had not been ordered, kostead of the is Tencellin that had been prescribed to treat a streptococcal Infection. Patient Suffered a Candiae annest and Couldn't be resuscitated. 1 kimberly Hiatt a she dispensing 14 grams of calcium chloride Instead of the correct dose of 440 miligranes to a 8 months child Patient, which es 10 times too much medication Aften dispensing by Nurse Hiatt, she realized that shed given overdose to a child Hence t she Commed Suicide at age so. Even that child patient was also died.

2. All Nurse has to learn about extra shifte and Prescribing to the patient. They have to taken came during prescribing to the Patient Needs to be cheeks the Prescription Prescribed by the doctor and proper transfer of Communication to next slutt Nurses Due to not work by the Nurses in their Blufte , Hence extra shift to be done by the one Nurses, there may be chances by the Nurrses of extra shefte, and most possible Cause in hospitals that due to fers Nursing staff, asooms might be happen for which high Impact to the patient.

Those Nurses who is neglecting to the patient then their license Can be Suspended with fine to the Patients and also they have to Suspended from the Tob