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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]
Congress passed EMTALA to eliminate the practice of "patient dumping"—that is, refusal to treat people because of inability to pay or insufficient insurance or transferring or discharging emergency patients on the basis of high anticipated diagnosis and treatment costs. The law applies when an individual seeks treatment for a medical ...
[1] [2] The decision-making processes surrounding covert medication should be in the best interests of the patient, transparent and inclusive. [3] Research suggests that covert administration of drugs is an embedded practice in nursing homes for the elderly in New Zealand. [4] 43-71% of nursings homes in the United Kingdom acknowledge the practice.
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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.
Complete Refusal: The patient refuses to be evaluated by EMS entirely. Evaluation with Refusal: The patient allows EMS to perform an evaluation, including vital signs and an assessment, before refusing further care or transport. Partial Refusal: The patient consents to some aspects of care but refuses specific actions, such as C-spine precautions.
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.