I thought this article was pertinent given you just analyzed in DQ 1 what steps to take if blood administration errors increased on your unit. DQ 2 asks you to select a problem within your workplace and the steps that you would take to solve it.
This is just a thinking exercise. There is no need to do more research or use references to receive credit.
Brief reflections on the article are fine to receive participation credit.
Hopkins Tanne J. When Jesica died. BMJ. 2003 Mar 29;326(7391):717. PMCID: PMC1125622.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1125622/
Solution
As a philosophical debate, what is the price for a human life? Medical errors happen. Medical errors will continue to happen. Any individual under the ages of 70-90, depending on each person’s viewpoint about “elderly” or “having already lived their life,” will always be seen as a tragic case of lost life, yet it begs the question, how much compensation will actually bring back a dead or disabled person. What is the price for life or suffering? It is easy to say all of these individuals deserve whatever compensation but to that family who smuggled in their 17 year old daughter, no amount of money will resurrect her and no amount of money will bring forth potential grandchildren. So what value is money? Would it ever actually replace the hole in their heart? What justice can be offered to these people that suffered under imperfect humans? To place one’s faith fully in imperfect creatures will lead to imperfect results and while all of humanity holds to the war against death there will be more tragic stories of people trying to evade deaths jaws only to be failed by people. That isn’t to say that compensation shouldn’t be awarded, it is to say who decides the price of someone’s life.
