Use your critical thinking skills to answer

Use your critical thinking skills to answer the questions that follow each case study. A patient in her mid-twenties saw an ophthalmologist for a routine eye exam. Due to her young age, a glaucoma test was not performed. She was later diagnosed with glaucoma and sued the ophthalmology group, alleging negligence in failing to perform a glaucoma test. The defense argued that the standard of care was not to administer the test to patients younger than 40 because instance of glaucoma at younger ages was rare. Which of the following statements do you think best describes the applicable standard of care in this case? Explain your choice. The defense should prevail because the reasonable, customary, and prudent course of action followed by practitioners in the same or similar circumstances would be the same. The plaintiff should prevail because all patients should be protected against glaucoma, regardless of age. You are a phlebotomist for a community laboratory and report for work on an extremely busy day. You travel daily from the lab where you work to the hospital to draw blood and then back to the lab. You have finished drawing blood at the hospital and are on your way back to the lab when you get a cell phone call that the hospital needs a complete blood count and electrolytes drawn STAT for a patient who has just come into the emergency room (ER). (41) Would you turn around and return to the ER or drop off your current blood samples and then return to the ER? Explain your answer. What does 41 have to do with preventing medical malpractice lawsuits? A nurse on the night shift in a busy hospital sees a physician’s order to administer intravenous medication to a patient who has just been admitted through the emergency room. She does not recognize the name of the drug but notes a charge of $4,000 for the drug. Her curiosity aroused, and the nurse checked the drug and discovered it should not be administered more frequently than every six weeks. Any patient receiving it should be carefully monitored at 15-minute intervals. The patient tells her he received the same medication just two weeks previously. What should the nurse do? In checking the drug, is the nurse practicing risk management? Explain your answer. Reference and SCIENCE HEALTH SCIENCE NURSING LAW

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