Reference no: EM133512505

Question 1

Clinical Thinking Questions

1. What is the significance of Lewis's mother telling her story? Why is it important to provide the background of Lewis?
2. Helen describes the staffing that occurred during Lewis's hospitalization. Why does this information impact Lewis's outcome?
3. What are possible reasons why health care providers dismissed implications of undetectable blood pressure? Why would they think it was an equipment failure?
4. Do you agree that it was significant that Lewis's crises developed on the weekend? Explain why or why not.

Question 2

1. Do you agree with the characteristics that Helen Haskell ascribes to a good or professional health care provider?
2. What does the statement "patients need to be empowered, and nurses need to embrace it" mean to you?
3. What is your perception of professionalism? What is misplaced professionalism? How does misplaced professionalism impact patient outcomes?

Question 3 -

Clinical Thinking Questions

1. How can healthcare professionals create a culture of safety, teamwork, and patient-centered care? What factors in this hospital's "teamwork" culture might have contributed to the outcome of Lewis?
2. Do you believe this story's outcome would have been different if patients and families were a part of the healthcare team? Why or why not?
3. Was there evidence of teamwork in this case? Explain your answer.

Question 4

Clinical Thinking Questions

1. What does professional accountability mean to you?
2. There are various perceptions of a nurse's role and responsibility. Some would say they are simply task-focused. How accurate is this perception of nursing care? Do you have a different perception of a nurse's role and responsibility? Why or why not?
3. What errors occurred in this story? Which of the errors you described were system errors? Which were individual errors?

Question 5 -

Clinical Thinking Questions

1. What is your role in preventing errors and adverse events? What practices will you engage in that will reduce the risk of error/adverse events?
2. What safeguards should be put in place to protect patients and families from a healthcare team's inability to recognize a developing problem?
3. What are your ideas about patient empowerment and nurse empowerment in terms of the overall safety of our healthcare systems?