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Your second point is perhaps the most salient in establishing neglect. The patient would have immediately stopped breathing and moving, and her lips would have
by didgeoridoo 5y ago
Your second point is perhaps the most salient in establishing neglect. The patient would have immediately stopped breathing and moving, and her lips would have turned blue. Anyone paying the slightest bit of attention would have seen that this is not the expected reaction, and intubated until the vec wore off.
Even if the nurse had administered the correct medication, this patient would have been in danger. Versed is a benzodiazepine, and not without its own risks — especially in an elderly patient. What was this nurse doing paying so little attention to a patient she thought she had just sedated?