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Charles Cullen: A Brief Summary And Analysis

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Ensuring safety of the patient is the responsibility of everyone working in a health care setting. Everyone must work together to provide quality patient care and promote safe environment. Patient safety also is one of the most important responsibilities of a nurse. Nurses pledge to provide the best quality of care for their patients and must prevent any harmful incident from occurring. I had never heard of Charles Cullen before, but watching the documentary about him was an eye-opening experience for me. It is very distressing to know that many innocent lives were taken because of the action of one person who was supposed to take care of patients. I think the recommendations from Cullen’s previous employers contributed in him being called a good nurse. Some of the hospitals who had hired him looked up on his references from the previous jobs. They gave good positive reviews of him even though he was fired from those hospitals. Previous hospitals that Cullen had worked with did not report anything against him because of their fear of being sued. This helped to conceal Cullen’s crimes and made his records to appear clean (Documentales …show more content…

The story is about a nurse who was giving unnecessary medicine to innocent patients. As we discussed in class last week, administration or the act of giving medicine is part of the art of nursing. Administration of drugs is an example of implementation, According to Robinson (2014), the art of nursing is the nurse’s insight of what the patients need and which is based on their expressions. We have to show our patients that we care for them. Next, science of nursing relies on scientific explanations for why we do the things in nursing (Robinson, 2014). The medicine or the drug is an example of the science of nursing. Any medicine is scientifically studied and tested before it is approved, prescribed, and administered to the

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