{"id":14095,"date":"2023-04-14T02:11:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T02:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/describe-one-example-of-actual-or-potential-malpractice-you-have-observed-been-involved-in-or-heard-about-during-your-career-you-may-want-to-relay-a-near-miss-scenario-see-instructions-for-furth\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T02:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T02:11:43","slug":"describe-one-example-of-actual-or-potential-malpractice-you-have-observed-been-involved-in-or-heard-about-during-your-career-you-may-want-to-relay-a-near-miss-scenario-see-instructions-for-furth","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/describe-one-example-of-actual-or-potential-malpractice-you-have-observed-been-involved-in-or-heard-about-during-your-career-you-may-want-to-relay-a-near-miss-scenario-see-instructions-for-furth\/","title":{"rendered":"Describe one example of actual or potential malpractice you have observed, been involved in, or heard about during your career. You may want to relay a &#8220;near miss&#8221; scenario. See instructions for further questions and details."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Events occurring with unanticipated deterioration of a patient&#8217;s condition, such as end-of-life, can result in legal issues.  However, recall there are four required elements to move an allegation of malpractice forward in a court of law. (Review the Legal Terminology List and the &#8220;Malpractice &#8230; 4 essential elements&#8221; presentation if necessary before responding.) The four elements are a professional duty owed to the patient; breach of such duty; causation (injury caused by the breach); and resulting damages\/injury.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>1. Describe one example of actual or potential malpractice you have observed, been involved in, or heard about during your career. You may want to relay a &#8220;near miss&#8221; scenario. *Please refer to the Radonda Vaught case for this discussion*<\/div>\n<div>2. Explain how each of the four elements were met as you describe the event.<\/div>\n<div>3. Was a root cause analysis performed (review this definition because this process may be called something else in your agency)? Why or why not?<\/div>\n<div>4. What processes were put in place to prevent this type of incident from happening again?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>400 words minimum but may be more.&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Events occurring with unanticipated deterioration of a patient&#8217;s condition, such as end-of-life, can result in legal issues. However, recall there are four required elements to move an allegation of malpractice forward in a court of law. (Review the Legal Terminology List and the &#8220;Malpractice &#8230; 4 essential elements&#8221; presentation if necessary before responding.) The four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[190],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/14095"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/14095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=14095"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=14095"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=14095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}