Discussion Post: Medication Errors Led to Disastrous Outcome
• Search the internet and learn about the cases of nurses Julie Thao and Kimberly Hiatt.
• List and discuss lessons that you and all healthcare professionals can learn from these two cases.
• Describe how the principle of beneficence and the virtue of benevolence could be applied to these cases. Do you think the hospital adminstrators handled the situations legally and ethically?
• In addition to benevolence, which other virtues exhibited by their colleagues might have helped Thao and Hiatt?
• Discuss personal virtues that might be helpful to second victims themselves to navigate the grieving process.
The response should include a reference list. Using one-inch margins, Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space and APA style of writing and citations.