So the media is choosing to focus on this case. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12863901/Nurse-healthcare-worker-illegally-drugged-patients-Blackpool-stroke-ward-amusements-jailed-total-ten-years-two-months.html
Not denying the appalling evil behavior of the staff involved but the fact the media are choosing to splash coverage makes me think the midazolam deaths are going to be laid at the feet of nursing staff to keep doctors hands clean? This story sets a narrative of nurses drugging patients for a quiet life. The midazolam scandal is beginning to gain attention so it’s going to have to spun in some way to protect the PTBs and what better way than for doctors to blame the clinical judgment of subordinate nurses for patient deaths???
No you may not
But tomorrow you can.
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I couldn’t have predicted that 🤣
Just having a laugh 👍
Do nurses get to make decisions on medication, or do they have to wait for a doctor to order it? This is probably the root of liability.
Only nurse practitioners or doctors can order medications. It is the nurse’s responsibility to know the correct dose, administer the correct dose via the correct route to the correct patient.
The docs have to write a script but I’ve personally seen docs write a patient up for midazolam in advance and it being left for the nurse to use their clinical judgement to administer as they saw fit
Also, do nurses carry malpractice insurance like the docs?
Probably all the same insurance providers as the hospital, but they may save some real cash, increase premiums, and gain customers if the nurses end up with this on them.
They can carry personal liability insurance. I pay for a 1mil/6 mil policy annually for my love.
The malpractice insurance is via the NHS https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/professional-indemnity-arrangement/
A schedule 4 medication like Midazolam can not be given unless ordered by a licensed physician or maybe a nurse practitioner who is working under a licensed physician. In my opinion, Physicians, Nurses and Pharmacists will not escape potential liability.
It’s often written up as a sort of standing script in the NHS (well in hospitals that my OH and other family worked in) and I also know this happened with my dad when he was seriously ill, it was done because often when some meds of this nature are needed a doc couldn’t be found to sign off the script
I’m so sorry this happened to your father, is he ok?
Thanks 🙏🏻 no sadly he died not long after but he had many health problems so it wasn’t the meds
Condolences friend.
Nurses don't prescribe drugs, so how are they going to be guiltymof these deaths?
Because the medics often write up a standing script for administering by the nurses as they think it’s needed. It was done with my dad when he was very ill.
Yes, but only if you are right in your prediction!😁
Deflect from the Covid mandate and crimes of doctors and hospitals.
Exactly