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You suffer severe trauma to your left arm in a car accident, and you are immediately taken to the hospital by an an ambulance. You are examined by doctors in the emergency room and it is determined that you will need immediate surgery to stop the bleeding and prevent further injury. Having been escorted to the operating room, your surgeon quickly glances at a chart to see the type of procedure he will be performing. When you wake up you realize that your right arm is missing. Instead of receiving treatment on your left arm, which was clearly damaged, your right arm, which was in perfectly good condition, has been amputated. Prior to surgery, the doctor had carelessly checked a chart and believed you were a different patient who was later scheduled to have his right arm amputated due to infection. As a construction worker, you no longer have the ability to perform the work you once did
) Clearly, this case is based on gross negligence. The four (4) factors that are needed to prove a negligence claim are: a duty of care; a breach in that duty; a harm related to the breach; and that harm was reasonably foreseeable. Using the information from the above scenario, explain the evidence in support of those four (4) factors being present. Four (4) marks
b) Explain, how does gross negligence differ from standard negligence? One (1) mark
c) The Registered Nurse (RN) must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions, which you can reasonably foresee and be likely to injure their patient/neighbour. This ____ __ ____ is a result of their registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) and the Australian Health Practitioners Registration Agency (AHPRA). Fill in the missing words. One (1) mark
d) Explain four (4) ways in which a nurse can avoid negligence in this situation
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You suffer severe trauma to your left arm in a car accident, and you are immediately taken to the ho
