In: Nursing
. In the following situations, state the likelihood that a claim of negligence could be substantiated. Do you have enough information to make this determination? If so, identify the person or persons whom you think might be held liable. If not, determine the additional information that you might need to make a decision.
A. A patient has had recent surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff. The PT instructs the PTA to progress the exercises “as tolerated,” and the PTA has the patient start exercises using resistance. When the patient returns to the physician for a follow-up examination, the physician informs him that the repair does not appear to have been successful.
B. A patient has sustained a hip fracture and is not allowed to bear weight through the involved lower extremity, but he has difficulty maintaining his non-weight-bearing status during activity. While ambulating in physical therapy, he frequently puts his full weight on his involved leg despite being reminded not to do so. The patient later needs a hip replacement as a result of the fracture not healing properly.
C. A patient performing stabilization exercises on a ball falls to the ground and breaks a wrist when the ball suddenly ruptures.
a. physical therapist improper management and improper
performance using an exercise that made the client not having
improvement in the repair of the surgery. PT's poor supervision and
monitoring and failure to provide information regarding a patient
improvement to the particular provider that makes the claim of
negligence.
b, PT failure to properly treat the patient by using excessive
weight in his involved leg instead of using non weight bearing that
made the result of the patient to have hip replacement surgery.PT
failure to properly treat the patient and improper technique used
in the course of treatment using an improper agent that is a claim
of negligence happened by the PT.
c, the injury happened during exercise that made the patient have
wrist fracture when PT improperly perform the manual therapy that
made injury to the patient wrist. negligence claim under PT when
failure to properly using the equipment and improper maintenance of
equipment.