Negligence Case Analysis

Legal: The four elements that demonstrate negligence that can lead to a medical malpractice lawsuit includes the following four according to our course note book and our instructor Kristin J. Kjensurd. 1st Clinician owed a legal duty of care to patient, 2nd clinician violated the duty of care, 3rd Duty of care violation caused injury to patient and 4th Patient suffered harm requiring compensation. In the article I read, all four elements that demonstrated negligence were violated by the clinician Cammy Elaine Nye. The 1st element Nye violated was her responsibility as a CNA to provide a professional level of care. As someone who is perusing a carrier in the healthcare field I feel that it’s our responsibility to provide a level of care that we are entrusted with, which I feel Nye failed to do. She put herself before the patient by not mentioning the incident that lead to Mrs.
In the healthcare field accidents are bound to happen, but it’s how we deal with that accident that determines the outcome. In our note book on page 192 (Kjensurd, 2017), duty of care is defined as “an obligation to prevent harm”, which Nye could have done had she alerted the proper individuals when the incident occurred, but she decided to stay quiet, which lead to Mrs. Obers death, leading to the violated of the 3rd element of causing patient harm. Besides Nye, the nursing director Suzanne Kay Ruddell also violated the 3rd element. She failed to order x rays for Mrs. Ober even when she had multiple staffers stating that Mrs. Obers was screaming and crying in pain. Ruddell did not act accordingly, which put her patient in pain leading to the violation of patient care. The 4th element was violated when the actions taken by Nye’s and Ruddell lead to the suffering and death of Mrs. Obers and created an emotional burden for her family members. The case was eventually settled with the amount undisclosed to the