A nurse asks an attorney specializing in health care for examples of malpractice. Which of the following would the attorney give as examples of malpractice? Select all that apply.
a. A nurse administers digoxin to the wrong patient, and the patient dies.
b. A nurse hangs an IV after checking the label, but the pharmacist placed the wrongcontents in the IV, and the patient dies
c. A patient has been admitted to the hospital under an order of commitment, but she elopesand is killed by a drunk driver outside the hospital.
d. A nurse does not restart an IV for a client in sickle cell crisis when the original IVinfiltrates. Lacking needed fluids, the patient dies.
e. A nurse places a patient in restraints without a physician's order, and the patient
suffocates while trying to get out of the restraints.
f. A client is experiencing complications of labor, and the nurse contacts the physician
while he is at a major fundraising event.
A, C, D, E
Administering the wrong medication, restraining a patient without a physician's order, allowing a
client who is admitted to elope, and neglecting to restart the IV on a client in a sickle cell crisis can all
become situations of malpractice. The term malpractice refers to wrongful conduct in the discharge of
professional duties or failure to meet standards of care for the profession that results in harm to an
individual entrusted to the professional's care. The nurse who hung the wrong IV would have
followed standard practice; the issue of malpractice would be with the pharmacist. The nurse who
contacted the physician when the patient experienced complications of labor was also acting
responsibly.
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