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MN506 Unit 1 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February

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Topic 1: Nursing Leaders as Ethical-Legal Change Agents in Health Care
In the course, you will research ethical
decision-making and legal issues that influence your role as a nursing leader. Please
take this opportunity to introduce yourself and explain how you see your role
as a nursing leader making ethical-legal and moral decisions. Include what
actions you plan to take to solve moral distress caused by ethical dilemmas and
the values that support your actions.

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Topic 2: Comparing Ethical Principles
Compare two ethical principles that apply to
ethical decision-making and how each one fits your own personal belief system
and the role of the advanced practice nurse.

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MN506 Unit 2 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: Advanced Practice Nursing Decisions
that Cause Moral Distress
Choose an ethical-legal dilemma that would
cause the advanced practice nurse moral distress. The dilemma could be one you
have faced in your practice. Write at least the introductory paragraphs for the
Unit 4 Assignment. Be specific about the dilemma — something you may have
experienced in your practice. Outline the topics that will be discussed in the
Unit 4 Assignment using level one APA headings.
Use the APA template provided in the class for
this paper. It is on the left navigation tab and is set up for all papers in
APA format. Place the beginning of your paper in the Discussion Board for all
to read and critique.
After receiving feedback from your peers and
instructor, work on refining the paper to submit in Unit 4. Choose someone to
peer review that does not have feedback.
Cite and reference at least three nursing peer
reviewed articles to support the content in the paragraph. In the final Assignment,
you will have a minimum of seven references relating to legal and ethical
issues.
Chapter 16, titled Effective Peer Reviews, in
the Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing handbook explains the importance of
conducting peer reviews (critiques), how to conduct the peer review, and how to
help your classmates and the reviewer achieve an improved learning experience.
Review pages 213–219 of Kaplan Guide to
Successful Writing.
https://kucampus.kaplan.edu/DocumentStore/Docs10/pdf/WC/Section4_Peer_Reviews_Grammar_and_Grading.pdf

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Topic 2: Evaluation of Ethical
Models and the Ethics Committee
You identified an ethical dilemma in
Discussion topic 1 of this unit. Present your dilemma to the ethics committee
of your institution. Outline an ethical theory or model you wish the committee
to consider when reviewing this case. What arguments do you have to support the
use of this model? Discuss the role of the ethics committee in this particular
ethical dilemma.
Unit 2 Group Assignment — Not Graded
MN506: Contract for Group Project,
Unit 2 Assignment — not graded
Work on the “Contract for Group
Project” template with your team.

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MN506 Unit 3 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: Application of Standards of Care
Your instructor has placed you in groups and
assigned a case study for the Unit 7 group Project.
Look at the legal malpractice case study that
has been assigned to your group. Describe the case and discuss the standard of
care that the parties will be held to in this case. How will the standards of
care and the Nurse Practice Act be applied in a court of law if the case is
sued?
Peer review at least two colleagues’ posts and
try to review students that do not have feedback. Use Chapter 16, Effective
Peer Reviews, in the Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing Handbook as a guide to
review.
Review pages 213–219 of Kaplan Guide to
Successful Writing.
Topic responses

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Topic 2: Clinical Criteria for Determining Danger to Self
A 45-year-old wife of one of the staff
physicians was admitted to the emergency room. She is intoxicated and loud. Her
husband wants her admitted to the psychiatric unit. He has asked to have two
other physicians that are his friends to sign the paper work to admit her. In
New York State where the hospital is located two physicians can admit a patient
against their will if they are a danger to themselves or others. You happen to
be a neighbor and know that the couple is going through a divorce and the husband
wants custody of the two children. You also know he is dating a nurse on
another unit. Differentiate between the ethical and legal implications of her
admission. What actions will you take? Support your decisions with legal
reasoning and case law.

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MN506 Unit 4 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: The Legal Implications of Acceptance or Refusal of an Assignment
After reviewing the ANA position statement on
“Rights of Registered Nurses when Considering a Patient Assignment,”discuss the
legal and ethical implications of accepting assignments. When delegating
assignments to unlicensed personnel, what considerations need to be considered?
What insurance issues come into play? Analyze the legal principle of Respondeat
Superior.

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Topic 2: Defenses to Malpractice and Risk
Management
Take the malpractice case assigned to your
group and discuss the defenses that may be raised in that case. Discuss how the
incident could have been prevented. What risk management techniques could have
been used before and after the adverse patient occurrence? Respond to the other
case scenario.

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MN506 Unit 5 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: Documentation and Regulatory Compliance
Based on the information you have learned in
the course so far and the readings, analyze the advantages and disadvantages of
charting by exception when faced with a malpractice lawsuit. Discuss how you
would correct mistakes in a medical chart and the formatting of your
documentation when witnessing an adverse patient occurrence (APO). What APOs
have to be reported in your state? How would charting corrections be perceived
in a court of law? What are the implications for handling of forensic issues?

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Topic 2: Impaired Nurses
Assume that you have knowledge that the nurse
working with you on your unit has been illegally using drugs. What are your
obligations to disclose this? What are your obligations to the institution you
work for? Are there any places you could refer the nurse to? What are the
implications for this nurse’s license? Are there any potential risks to your
license? If so, what?

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MN506 Unit 6 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: Legal issues of an Advanced Practice Nurse in the Workplace
Choose one topic from the following list and
evaluate how the chosen topic impacts your role as an advanced practice nurse.
What are the legal implications related to your practice. These topics are
discussed in this week’s chapter readings from the book. Analyze how
understanding of the chosen topic will impact your future practice.
Choose one:
Employer and employee rights
American with Disabilities Act
Employment contracts and unionization
Corporate liability
Sexual harassment in the workplace
Employees with AIDS/HIV and exposure to blood
borne pathogens
Environmental health and safety
Reply and comment on at least two of your
peers that have chosen a different topic than you have chosen.
Please carefully review the Discussion Board
grading rubric in the grading rubrics section of the course home.

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Topic 2: Post your draft paper for peer
reviewYour instructor has placed you in groups and assigned a case study for
the Unit 7 group project.

Post the draft of your unit 7 paper in the
discussion area for your peers to critique. Your team leader will post the
draft but the leader and each member must critique or reply three time in the
discussion area to get credit. Your peer review must be substantive and not
simply “good paper”. You must look at the APA formating and the grading rubric
and base your comments on if the paper meets these guidelines and address the
assignment directions.

Peer review at least three colleagues’ posts
and try to review students that do not have feedback. Use Chapter 16, Effective
Peer Reviews, in the Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing Handbook as a guide to
review.

Academic Support Center?Writing Center?Writing Reference
Library?Look for the Kaplan Guide to
Successful Writing highlighted in an orange banner?Section 4: Peer Reviews, Chapter 16, pages 213-219.

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MN506 Unit 7 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: Policy and Politics
Read the case studies in Chapter 3 of Policy
and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals. Examine what Margaret
Sanger, The Arkansas State Legislature, and others have done to make changes to
health care policy. Outline the process that these pioneers took to effect
change. Describe how policy change moves from internal adoption to legislation.
Discuss expertise and internal and external advocacy. Give an example of a
policy change you would advocate for.

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Topic 2: Nursing Strong Throughout Time
Compare and contrast three nursing advocates
that have brought about change to public policy. What changes need to be made
in the future to be successful as a profession of nursing advocates for
healthcare policy reform?

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MN506 Unit 8 Discussion 1 Latest 2017 February
Topic 1: The Affordable Care Act
Describe the features of the Affordable Care
Act and explain how it will control costs and improve quality of care from the
perspective of a cultural, economic, and ethnically diverse society. What are
the limits of the Act? As an advanced practice nurse, what policy changes would
you recommend to provide health coverage to those who remain uninsured? What
effects does this act have on providers and consumers?

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MN506 Unit 9 Discussion 1 & 2 Latest 2017 February
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Topic 1: The Role of the Advanced Practice Nurse in a Changing Health Care
Environment
Analyze the role of the advanced practice
nurse in the changing health care environment. How will this role augment
physicians’ practice? What implications will the Affordable Care Act have on
this new delivery system?
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Topic 2: WebQuest Critique
Submit the work you have done on
your WebQuest for others to critique. Give substantial peer review using the
template provided to two of your fellow classmates that do not have feedback.
Do not attach the template, but copy it into the Discussion Board.

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MN506 Unit 10 Discussion 1 Latest 2017 February
Topic 1: Global Nursing Shortage
Evaluate the effects of the global nursing
shortage on health policy. How has the shortage affected the United Nation’s
Millennium Development Goals? Analyze how nursing ideas, values, and beliefs
impact policy agenda. Identify when policy can dictate treatment options.

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MN506 unit 4 Assignment Latest 2017 February

MN506: Unit 4 Assignment
Case Study Ethical Legal Dilemma Advanced
Practice Nursing
Course outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
MN506-1: Apply theoretical frameworks and
concepts to ethical dilemmas in the advanced practice role.
PC 2.3: Demonstrate integrity through the
application of relevant codes of conduct and social responsibility within one’s
profession.
Please take a moment to watch this Assignment
Introduction, or read the presentation transcript.
Instructions:
Create an ethical legal decision-making
dilemma involving an advanced practice nurse in the field of education,
informatics, administration, or a nurse practitioner. Apply relevant codes of
conduct that apply to the practice of nursing and your chosen field.
Include one ethical principle and one law that
could be violated and whether the violation would constitute a civil or
criminal act based on facts.
Construct a decision that demonstrates
integrity and that would prevent violation of the ethical principle and prevent
the law from being violated.
Describe the legal principles and laws that
apply to the ethical dilemma.
Support the legal issues with prior legal
cases or state or federal statutes.
Analyze the differences between ethical and
legal reasoning and apply an ethical-legal reasoning model in the case study to
create a basis for a solution to the ethical-legal dilemma.
List three recommendations that will resolve
advanced practice nurses’ moral distress in the dilemma you have presented.
Based on the issue you presented and the rules
of the law, apply the laws to your case and come up with a conclusion.
Note:
This is a fact-based Assignment that will not
include your opinion.
This will require research and support for
what is written.
The Assignment should be in your words after
reading the scholarly and fact-based publications and have proper citations.
There should be no quotations. The professor wants to hear your voice as a
masters trained nurse.
Description
In the Unit 2 topic 1 Discussion, you will
choose an ethical-legal dilemma that would cause the advanced practice nurse
moral distress. You will write the introductory paragraphs for the Unit 4
Assignment in the Unit 2 topic 1 Discussion Board and post it for your peers to
comment on.
You will continue working on the topic you
have chosen and submit the paper using the most recent version of APA format. A
template is provided in the left navigation of the course room for the paper.
The paper should have a minimum of seven citations and some of these should be
case law or applicable statutes. The Kaplan Library has Westlaw Campus
Researchdatabase where you can find case laws that relate to your topic. The
APA Manual and the textbook have instructions on legal formatting.
Due: Day 7 by 11:59 p.m. (ET)
To view the Grading Rubric for this
Assignment, please visit the Grading Rubrics section of the Course Home.
Assignment Requirements:
Before finalizing your work, you should:
be sure to read the Assignment description
carefully (as displayed above);
consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course
Home) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and
utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize
errors.
Your writing Assignment should:
follow the conventions of Standard American
English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
be well ordered , logical, and unified , as
well as original and insightful ;
display superior content, organization,
style,and mechanics ; and
use APA 6th Edition format as outlined in the
APA Progression Ladder.
How to Submit:
Submit your Assignment to the unit Dropbox
before midnight on the last day of the unit.

Kaplan
MN506 unit 7 Assignment Latest 2017 February

MN506: Unit 8 Assignment
Controversial Treatments and Legislative
Change
Course Outcomes addressed in this assignment
MN506-3: Evaluate the implications of the
effects of contemporary health policy on providers and consumers.
MN506-4: Assess the legislative and
policy-making strategies specific to scope of practice and nursing roles that
influence health care services and practice.
Choose a health care treatment option that is
controversial and maybe costly. Describe the positive and negative benefits
from the treatment, evidence of effectiveness, and the potential harm of a
different treatment option. What strategies would you use to advocate for a
legislative change in your state to influence insurance coverage for this treatment.
Choose a controversial health care treatment
option. Describe the treatment.
Describe the social and legal controversy
associated with your controversial treatment.
Describe the evidence that supports the
effectiveness of the controversial treatment.
Describe the evidence that does not support
the effectiveness of the controversial treatment.
Compare and contrast the positive and negative
benefits or harm of the controversial treatment.
Compare and contrast positive and negative
aspects of available traditional treatments.
Compare and contrast the costs of the
controversial treatment with the costs associated with traditional treatments
Describe the required process for legislative
change to occur in your state.
Describe a strategies that you would you use
at the local and state level to advocate for a legislative change in your state
that would influence insurance coverage for this treatment.
Provide an estimated timeline for your
legislative change to occur. Use the steps describe in required process for
legislative change for your state.
Note:
This is a fact-based Assignment that will not
include your opinion.
This will require research and support for
what is written.
The Assignment should be in your words after
reading the scholarly and fact-based publications and have proper citations.
There should be no quotations. The professor wants to hear your voice as a
masters trained nurse.
The paper should have a minimum of seven
citations and some of these should be case law or applicable statutes.
Due: Day 7 by 11:59 p.m. (ET)
To view the Grading Rubric for this
Assignment, please visit the Grading Rubrics section of the Course Home.
Assignment Requirements:
Before finalizing your work, you should:
Be sure to read the Assignment description
carefully (as displayed above);
Consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course
Home) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and
Utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize
errors.
Your writing Assignment should:
Follow the conventions of Standard American English
(correct grammar, punctuation, etc.;
Be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well
as original and insightful;
Display superior content, organization, style,
and mechanics; and
Use APA 6th Edition format as outlined in the
APA Progression Ladder.
How to Submit:
Submit your Assignment to the unit Drop box
before midnight on the last day of the unit.
When you are ready to submit your Assignment,
click the Drop box tab and select this unit’s basket from the dropdown menu,
then attach your file. Make sure to save a copy of your work and be sure to
confirm that your file uploaded correctly.
For help uploading your file, review the
Student Guide to the Drop box.
How to Submit
Submit your Assignment to the unit Dropbox
before midnight on the last day of the unit.
When you are ready to submit your Assignment,
click the Dropbox tab and select this unit’s basket from the dropdown menu,
then attach your file. Make sure to save a copy of your work and be sure to
confirm that your file uploaded correctly.

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MN506 unit 8 Assignment Latest 2017 February

Group Project: Assignment Legal Malpractice
Case Description
Outcomes addressed in this Assignment:
MN506-2: Critique ethical-legal concepts,
principles, and dilemmas related to the provision of health care.
Please take a moment to watch this Assignment
Introduction, or read the presentation transcript.
Instructions:
You will construct a group contract in Unit 2.
In the contract, you will determine how your group will communicate and share
documents. Roles of the group will be delineated. You will work from Unit 3 to
Unit 7 on a malpractice case.
There are two malpractice cases. Your
instructor will assign your group either Case Study 1: Malpractice Action
brought by Yolanda Pinnelas or Case Study 2: Wrongful Death by Howard Carpenter
on Behalf of Wilma Carpenter, Deceased. The group will construct a 10–15-page
paper about the legal constructs involved in one of the cases.
Directions:
The group will write a10–15-page APA formatted
paper (title page and references list do not count towards the 10–15 pages).
Support the paper with peer reviewed articles and case law where applicable.
You must have minimum of eight references. You may have an appendix that has
samples of documents that support your positions or expands on the facts of the
case.
You will post a draft of the group paper in
the Discussion Board of Unit 7. This will give you an opportunity to get peer
feedback and to learn from others.
You may use Goggle Hangouts™, SKYPE®, or other
conferencing tools. Additionally, you may want to use a document-sharing tool
such as Google Drive®. The paper should discuss the following issues:
Liability issues
Parties involved and who should be sued
Defenses of the parties
Documents that the plaintiff’s side will ask
for and how they will be used
Standards of care
Duty, breach, damages, and proximate cause
Insurance issues
Risk management issues before and after the
incident
Documentation and mandatory reporting
Who should write the incident report and what
should it say?
The doctrine of Respondeat Superior and how it
would apply the issues surrounding informed consent Preparation for court of
the parties.
Due: Day 7 by 11:59 p.m. (ET)
Case Study 1: Malpractice Action Brought by
Yolanda Pinnelas
People involved in case:
Yolanda Pinnelas — patient
Betty DePalma, RN, MS — nursing supervisor
Elizabeth Adelman, RN — recovery room nurse
William Brady, M.D. — plastic surgeon
Mary Jones, RN — IV insertion
Carol Price, LPN
Jeffery Chambers, RN — staff nurse
Patricia Peters, PharmD — pharmacy
Diana Smith, RN
Susan Post, JD — risk manager
Amy Green — quality assurance
Michael Parks, RN, MS, CNS — education
coordinator
SAFE-INFUSE — pump
Brand X infusion — pump
Caring Memorial Hospital
Facts:
The patient, Yolanda Pinellas, is a
21-year-old female admitted to Caring Memorial Hospital for chemotherapy.
Caring Memorial is a hospital in upstate New York. Yolanda was a student at
Ithaca College and studying to be a music conductor.
Yolanda was diagnosed with anal cancer and was
to receive Mitomycin for her chemotherapy. Mary Jones, RN, inserted the IV on
the day shift around 1300, and the patient, Yolanda, was to have Mitomycin
administered through the IV. An infusion machine was used for the delivery. The
Mitomycin was hung by Jeffery Chambers, RN, and he was assigned to Yolanda. The
unit had several very sick patients and was short staffed. Jeffery had worked a
double shift the day before and had to double back to cover the evening shift.
He was able to go home between shifts and had about 6 hours of sleep before
returning. The pharmacy was late in delivering the drug so it was not hung
until the evening shift. Patricia Peters, PharmD, brought the chemotherapy to
the unit.
On the evening shift, Carol Price, LPN, heard
the infusion pump beep several times. She had ignored it as she thought someone
else was caring for the patient. Diana Smith, RN, was also working the shift
and had heard the pump beep several times. She mentioned it to Jeffery. She did
not go into the room until about 45 minutes later. The patient testified that a
nurse came in and pressed some buttons and the pump stopped beeping. She was
groggy and not sure who the nurse was or what was done.
Diana Smith responded to the patient’s call
bell and found the IV had been dislodged from the patient’s vein. There was no
evidence that the Mitomycin had gone into the patient’s tissue. Diana
immediately stopped the IV, notified the physician, and provided care to the
hand. The documentation in the medical record indicates that there was an
infiltration to the IV.
The hospital was testing a new IV infusion
pump called SAFE-INFUSE. The supervisory nurse was Betty DePalma, RN. Betty
took the pump off the unit. No one made note of the pump’s serial number as
there were six in the hospital being used. There was also another brand of
pumps being used in the hospital. It was called Brand X infusion pump. Betty
did not note the name of the pump or serial number. The pump was not isolated
or sent to maintenance and eventually the hospital decided not to use
SAFE-INFUSE so the loaners were sent back to the company.
Betty and Dr. William Brady are the only ones
that carry malpractice insurance. The hospital also has malpractice insurance.
Two weeks after the event, the patient
developed necrosis of the hand and required multiple surgical procedures, skin
grafting, and reconstruction. She had permanent loss of function and deformity
in her third, fourth, and fifth fingers. The claimant is alleging that, because
of this, she is no longer able to perform as a conductor, for which she was
studying.
During the procedure for the skin grafting,
the plastic surgeon, Dr. William Brady, used a dermatome that resulted in
uneven harvesting of tissue and further scarring in the patient’s thigh area
where the skin was harvested.
The risk manager is Susan Post, JD, who works
in collaboration with the quality assurance director Amy Green. Amy had noted
when doing chart reviews over the last 3 months prior to this incident that
there were issues of short staffing and that many nurses were working double
shifts, evenings, and nights then coming back and working the evening shift.
She was in the process of collecting data from the different units on this
observation. She also noted a pattern of using float nurses to several units.
Prior to this incident, the clinical nurse specialist, Michael Parks, RN, MS,
CNS, was consulting with Susan Post and Amy Green about the status of staff
education on this unit and what types of resources and training was needed.
Case Study 2: Wrongful Death by Howard
Carpenter on Behalf of Wilma Carpenter, Deceased
People Involved in Case:
Mrs. Wilma Carpenter — patient, deceased
Mr. Howard Carpenter — husband and plaintiff in
wrongful death suit
Mrs. Scale, RN, MS — nursing supervisor
Elizabeth Adelman, RN — recovery room nurse
Richard Washington, MD — orthopedic surgeon
Judy Gouda, RN, NP
Joseph Alsoff, LPN — post-surgical unit nurse
Kelly Wheeler, RN — post-surgical unit nurse
David Casler, LRT
Susan Post, JD — risk manager
Amy Green — quality assurance
Michael Parks, RN, MS, CNS — education
coordinator
Caring Memorial Hospital
Facts:
The plaintiff, Mrs. Carpenter, was a
55-year-old woman who underwent a total hip replacement at Caring Memorial
Hospital. The physician was Richard Washington, MD. Dr. Washington is an
orthopedic surgeon. His nurse practitioner is Judy Gouda, RN, NP. Dr. Washington
reviewed the consent with Mrs. Carpenter prior to surgery. Joseph Alsoff, LPN,
witnessed the consent and Mr. Carpenter was present. Joseph does not remember
the doctor ever mentioning that death could be a result of the surgery. The
recovery room nurse is Elizabeth Adelman, RN. The respiratory therapist is
David Casler, LRT. The nurse on the post-surgical unit was Kelly Wheeler, RN.
The supervising nurse was Mrs. Scale, RN, MS.
The patient had an epidural catheter for a
post-operative pain management following an episode of hypotension in the
recovery room which was treated with Ephedrine. Judy Gouda made rounds on the
patient in the recovery room after the hypotensive event and vital signs were
stable. The patient, Mrs. Carpenter, was placed on a medical surgical nursing
unit with the epidural. The nurse, Kelly, was assigned to the patient and had
not worked on that unit before, but had worked in post-acute critical care
units. The nurse’s assignment was to provide patient care on the entire floor for
that shift. There was also an LPN, Joseph, on the unit. It was a busy day on
the unit. Mrs. Carpenter was not the only post-operative patient.
Kelly assessed the plaintiff upon admission,
checked the IVs, asked if the patient was in pain, noted that the patient was
responsive and understood where she was, and was stable. She then left to care
for other patients.
The licensed practical nurse, Joseph Alcoff,
had been working on the unit for several years. It had been rumored that Joseph
was an alcoholic. There was no evidence that he had been drinking on the unit.
Approximately an hour after the patient arrived on the unit, she was unable to
tolerate respiratory therapy that was ordered and she became nauseated and
vomited. David Casler administered the respiratory therapy. According to Kelly,
the registered nurse, 10 minutes after the vomiting episode, Joseph Alcoff, the
LPN, found the patient blue and unresponsive and called a code. Joseph is the
only person other than the physician that carries his own liability insurance.
The hospital also has malpractice insurance.
The code team responded, along with Kelly, the
registered nurse. Mrs. Carpenter was intubated and cardiac resuscitation was
initiated. The patient responded to resuscitative efforts and she was
transferred to the intensive care unit. Subsequently, Mrs. Carpenter did not do
well, was unresponsive, and declared brain dead and taken off the respirator.
She did not have a DNR in place.
There is a conflict in testimony between
Joseph the LPN and Kelly the RN. Joseph indicated that Kelly found the
plaintiff to be unresponsive after the vomiting episode and called the code.
The record is not clear as to when the vital signs and epidural site were
assessed. Kelly said she did a motor and sensory level assessment and they were
fine — it is not charted though. The time elapsed between the vomiting episode
and finding the patient is in dispute. The final diagnosis was anoxia
encephalopathy due to the time lapse between CPR being initiated. The patient
was eventually extubated, breathed independently for a period of time, and then
subsequently expired.
The vital signs ordered by the physician were
hourly. The hypotensive episode in the recovery room had not been reported to
the registered nurse.
The risk manager is Susan Post, JD, who works
in collaboration with the quality assurance director Amy Green. Amy had noted
when doing chart reviews over the last 3 months prior to this incident that the
vital signs taken in the recovery room were not charted, not done, or not
reported to the units. She was in the process of collecting data from the
different units on this observation. She also noted a pattern of using float
nurses to several postoperative units. Prior to this incident, the clinical
nurse specialist, Michael Parks, RN, MS, CNS, was consulting with Susan Post
and Amy Green about the status of staff education on these units and what types
of resources and training was needed.
Assignment Requirements:
Before finalizing your work, you should:
be sure to read the Assignment description
carefully (as displayed above);
consult the Grading Rubric (under the Course
Home) to make sure you have included everything necessary; and
utilize spelling and grammar check to minimize
errors.
Your writing Assignment should:
follow the conventions of Standard American
English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
be well ordered , logical, and unified , as
well as original and insightful ;
display superior content, organization, style,
and mechanics ; and
use APA 6th Edition format as outlined in the
APA Progression Ladder.
How to Submit:
Submit your Assignment to the unit Dropbox
before midnight on the last day of the unit.
When you are ready to submit your Assignment,
click the Dropbox tab and select this unit’s basket from the dropdown menu,
then attach your file. Make sure to save a copy of your work and be sure to
confirm that your file uploaded correctly.