Question

1. Can a neighbor make important healthcare decisions for a patient? Explain the process with support of your reading material

2. Discuss one type of defense against a specific liability that may be brought against a nurse. Explain with support of your reading material.

3. A young Lady work at South Town Hospital. While caring for a patient, she discovered that nurse H has caused significant injury to a patient. Discus the case where H is or is not covered under the hospital group insurance policy. (Only discus one: is covered or is not covered.). Explain with support of your reading material.

Answer 1

1.A neigbour can make an healthcare decision if the patient has given an advance directive for the neighbour.It refers if the patient is unconscious and as per Advance directives if the neighbour needs to make important decisions on his medical treatment he can do that.

2.

• Negligence

In order to be found legally liable, it is generally necessary to show that the nurse acted negligently, or acted in the way they shouldn't have, which can occur even when a nurse has good intentions. A nurse can be found to be negligent if these three standards are present:

• The nurse owed a 'duty of care' to the patient, or was obligated to care for the patient
• The nurse 'breached' that duty of care, or failed to properly care for the patient
• The breach resulted in 'measurable damage', injury or harm to the patient

3.Nurses in the United States are covered under a medical malpractice insurance .Negligennce wont be covered under hospital insurance policy,but may cover under private malpractice insurances.