missed ethics

Question 1

a morally good act (prescribing opioids to relieve pain) that also causes an unintended adverse effect (respiratory depression, death)

Benefits of the act must outweigh the unintended adverse effects

Answer 1

Doctrine of double effect

Question 2

physician knowingly prescribes a potentially lethal medication to a competent, terminally ill patient, who will then self administer the med to end their own life

Answer 2

medical aid in dying

Question 3

administration of sedating medications prescribed by a physician with the intent of relieving intractable end of life pain

relies on doctrine of double effect

Question 4

event that did not result in harm to the patient either because of a timely intervention or incedentally

an event that is unplanned and has potential for harm

Ex: patient about to be administered IV bag with barcode assigned to another patient when another provider notices the error and stop the action before the patient is admistered the wrong med

Answer 4

Near miss close call

Question 5

an adverse even that should never occur

event is identifiable and preventable and has very serious consequences for the patient (death or disability)

ex: a test procedure on the wrong patient

test/procedure on wrong site or side

retained foreign body

Answer 5

never event