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Patient abuse and neglect may occur in settings such as hospitals, [4] nursing homes, [5] clinics [6] and during home-based care. [7] Health professionals who abuse patients may be deemed unfit to practice and have their medical license removed [8]: 20 as well as facing criminal charges as well as civil cases. Abuse amongst the general adult ...
While the number of nurses providing patient care is recognized as an inadequate measure of nursing care quality, there is hard evidence that nurse staffing is directly related to patient outcomes. Studies by Aiken and Needleman have demonstrated that patient death, nosocomial infections, cardiac arrest, and pressure ulcers are linked to ...
Patient advocacy is a process in health care concerned with advocacy for patients, survivors, and caregivers. The patient advocate [1] may be an individual or an organization, concerned with healthcare standards or with one specific group of disorders.
The same year, regulators cited the Pahrump Health and Rehabilitation Center, a nursing home, for several medication-related violations similar to those detected at Accent Hospice Care. Nurses failed to document that certain drugs were administered and did not give insulin to a diabetic patient .
Professional abuse is "a pattern of conduct in which a person abuses, violates, or takes advantage of a victim within the context of the abuser's profession." [1] This typically involves a violation of the relevant professional organization's code of ethics. [2]
Institutional abuse is the maltreatment of a person (often children or older adults) from a system of power. [1] This can range from acts similar to home-based child abuse, such as neglect, physical and sexual abuse, and hunger, to the effects of assistance programs working below acceptable service standards, or relying on harsh or unfair ways to modify behavior.
While medical schools in the U.S. mostly ignore addictive diseases, the majority of front-line treatment workers, the study found, are low-skilled and poorly trained, incapable of providing the bare minimum of medical care. These same workers also tend to be opposed to overhauling the system.
Parents have less autonomy to make decisions about their children's care than adult patients have over their own care. [58]: 5 Treatment may take place even if a child or adolescent disagree with treatment, though the wishes of a child patient are taken more into account the more burdensome treatment is and the worse the prognosis. [58]: 8