Wrongful Death by Howard Carpenter on Behalf of Wilma Carpenter, Deceased

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The case refers to one Mrs. Carpenter, the plaintiff. She died while under the care of the nurses in the hospital after undergoing a hip replacement surgery. After surgery, she was put under clinical management under the supervision of a post-surgical unit nurse. Before admission to the surgical unit, she was assessed by Kelly, the registered nurse and was found to be in a stable condition. As the post-surgical nurse made round, he noticed that the patient had become nauseated and was vomiting. He called the code and another registered nurse, David Casler gave her a respiratory therapy. What followed is the patient was found unresponsive and transferred to intensive care and later passed ways (Recupero, 2008). In this case, the standard of patient care was not adhered to leading to death. For instance, when the assurance director was doing reviews after months of Mrs. Carpenter's death, he found out...