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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of medical error. Reduction strategies are presented as speaker notes for a PowerPoint presentation. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Ethics of Medical Error , 1/2011 --for
more information on using this paper properly! Slide One: Ethical Concerns at Patton-Fuller Over the course of the last two months, Patton-Fuller has experienced seven cases of medical error.
Two patients required emergency assistance One patient died Medical ethics establish that medical practitioners must uphold the principle of doing no harm
(Egan, 2004). There is an ethical obligation to become educated on how to reduce medical error. Speaker Notes: During the last two months, seven incident reports were filed
with the Director of Quality and Risk Management at Patton-Fuller Community Hospital. These incident reports reflect serious medical errors committed by the staff that jeopardized the safety of patients. While
four of the incidents ended with little long-term damage, three were more serious: one patient was administered a transfusion of the wrong blood type and went into shock but was
resuscitated in the ICU, another patient was given the wrong medication and went into respiratory arrest but was resuscitated, and one patient was given the wrong dosage of medicine due
to a misread lab report and died as a result. These medical errors indicate a severe ethical lapse on the part of the hospital, as they show that the hospital
is not living up to the principle of doing no harm which is a vital part of medical ethics. Medical professionals are ethically obligated to improve the quality of care
by becoming educated on the matter of how to reduce the incidence of medical error. Slide Two: Addressing Joint Commission Concerns The Joint Commission has reported on the
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