Legal Sims

The people at fault in this case were; the doctors for not ordering correct medication doses. Nurses for not questioning orders. RT for not examining the vent settings closely. Pharmacy for improper medication doses. Hospital for possible low staff, poorly trained staff and lack of oversight and policies.

As a RN, this case shows us that as a team we can rise and fall, everyone is accountable and everyone is at fault. Don't always go with the flow, think about your actions and think for yourself and protect your license.

Remember "The power is yours".

Legal Sim thoughts from Yuni, Rochelle, Megan & Holly

This was a very sad case that highlighted serious negligence issues. We also realized that having malpractice insurance when working as an RN is extremely important. Although the nurse had a very small role in regards to the medical negligence of the case, she still ended up owing a large sum of money. Learning about this case has made us realize how important it is as an RN to be aware of all aspects of care that is going on around us. As RN's we need to know the proper standards for providing patient care and be able to hold other members of the medical team accountable to those standards.

group 5 - Carl, Alice, Tove, Tommy

Visit to courtroom second life was awesome.

Liability

Be aware on a day to day basis. No matter how far away you think you are from an activity, you have a responsibility to verify Dr. 's orders. You may be dragged in from a partial responsibility viewpoint. What is the mixture of safety and competent practice? What is your measure of input into the process? Does the existing system of liability work? Is this an attempt to regulate process through litigation? Is this an effective way to regulate safe medical practice. Would professionalism and safety have better results through regulatory agencies, licensing , etc than though legal action?

Legal Issues

This case demonstrated the importance of understanding standards of care, and having malpractice insurance. Reader boards on liability (second life) were helpful.

Crystal Seto
Robin Rettig
Clint Webster

Legal sim

It was a very tragic case, and showed how important it is to get and have malpractice insurance. Just beacuse the Dr. is there and working with the patient the nurse still has to be vigilant about everything that is going on with the patient.
It would be very hard to be apart of a case where a child or anyone lost their life while in your care- it would be hard to live with that.
This was a great learning experience - it really hit home the importance of knowing and always practicing standards of care for every patient in every situation.

Allison, Jennifer, & Rachael

Private coverage

I think that this exercise has proven to everyone just how important is is to not only be insured by your place of work, but to have your own private malpractice insurance. It is important to provide care up to the standard of care, but mistakes do happen...not to mention there are a lot of sue-happy people out there!

Joe
Tim
Ivan
Jenny

Legal sim

We don't understand why the nurse was liable for 10%. What exactly did she do? Did she give the epi without checking what it should be? Situations like this make me want to be doubly carefull because you can kill people really easily. Or maybe we should just never be ER nurses. Is it more room for error in the ER because it is so crazy sometimes? If that nurse had $6,000,000 of liability insurance like the sites we looked at last week she would be ok. One of our instructors told us that we shouldn't have insurance because people are more likely to sue those with deep pockets than those who have nothing. We don't know what to think. It appears that the majority of nurses think it is a good idea. We think it would be usefull to talk about a few legal cases like that at a more in depth level. It might help us see what things we need to be really careful about.

Meg Goodfellow
Kalia Norcott
Molly London
Sonnie Jones