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In the natural hospital setting, nurses were ordered by unknown doctors to administer what could have been a dangerous dose of a (fictional) drug to their patients. In spite of official guidelines forbidding administration in such circumstances, Hofling found that 21 out of the 22 nurses would have given the patient an overdose of medicine. [2]
State of Tennessee v. RaDonda L. Vaught was an American legal trial in which former Vanderbilt University Medical Center nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and impaired adult abuse after she mistakenly administered the wrong medication that killed a patient in 2017. [1] She was sentenced to three years' probation.
[16] [17] NICE recommends care home providers have a care home medicines policy that includes guidance on covert administration of medications by care home staff. [18] Nursing guidelines in the New Zealand state the overriding a patient's wishes to not receive medication if the healthcare worker perceives it to be in the patient's best interest.
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The 41-year-old resident of Boise’s North End has psoriatic arthritis, which entails weekly, self-administered injections to manage his symptoms and prevent permanent joint damage.
Shawn Johnson shared on social media that she refused narcotic pain medication after delivering her third child via C-section due to past struggles with addiction.
An emergency medical condition (EMC) is defined as "a condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) such that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in placing the individual's health [or the health of an unborn child] in serious jeopardy, serious ...
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