Meredith holds full responsibility for what happened to her patient. Falsifying documentation is illegal and extremely dangerous to the patients' health, as was the case with her patient, Mr. Wallace.
Meredith should have never put vitals down that were not taken at the time of the visit. What should have happened is that Meredith should have stopped attempting to take Mr. Wallace's vitals and asked a senior co-worker or the Physician to help assist with taking a blood pressure. She also could have used an alternate way of obtaining a blood pressure (example: using the radial pulse with the blood pressure cuff at the forearm). The patient should absolutely be reimbursed for the medical bills accrued from Meredith's mistake/lapse of judgment. Meredith also just receive a performance write-up with her employer. She is lucky if she would still have a job.
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22-year-old male has a shard of glass impaled in his cheek. You look
inside his mouth and see minor bleeding. The patient is conscious and
alert with adequate breathing. You should:<span>- carefully stabilize the shard of glass and allow him to suction his own mouth.</span>
Your kidney will release adrenaline (epinephrine) when your fight or flight response is activated or when your body is under stress.
The answer is Gluten Intolerance it is not the symptoms
of muscular
dystrophy. A family of muscle diseases characterized
by muscle weakness, defects in muscle protein, death of muscle cells/tissue.
Typically inherited (genetic), a mutation of the dystrophin gene. The type of mutation is responsible for the type of Muscular
Dystrophy.
