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Table of ContentsTable of Contents.............................................................................................................................2INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3Comprehensive description....................................................................................................3Explanation about the event on I feel and why it made feel..................................................3Evaluation of all consequences of this critical incident for the health consumer..................4Analysis of implications to this critical incident for your future nursing practice.................5Identify and discuss new knowledge gained from this incident.............................................5Action plan to increase learning.............................................................................................6CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION Nursing is encompassing as autonomous and collaborative treatment of patient andindividual of every age, families and dying people. This project report is all about providingspecific information about “Coroner recommends changes after blood mix-up patient death”.Analyzing of the incident is being effectively and related consequences to them.Comprehensive descriptionAccording to the mentioned case, it has been seen that a senior patient who was 71 years ofage died because she received a transfusion of wrong blood types. The cause of death is basicallyimproper behaviour of the carer and relatives that to be encouraged to accompany heart patientsto pre-surgery process. Prior to the surgery, “Ruth Stoll” was needed to go through Clinical-pathlaboratories to provide sample of their blood so that it could be tested during the time oftransfusion. At the same time, another patient named “Martha Kovendy” has also present for thegiving their sample. The nurse that took the samples mislabelled the two test tubes. During thetransfusion process, she did required blood and received the wrong blood. Because of this, aftersix days later she died (ABC News, 2018).Explanation about the event on I feel and why it made feelAfter gone through entire case scenario, it has been establishing that various unethicaldilemma or mistakes is being happen during the time of blood sample process. The one which isnoticeable is the presence of relatives such as sister-in-law and Ms Kovendy’s husband remainoutside in waiting premises while the blood samples were taken the patient. From my point ofview, I found that the entire mistake is done from the nurse side. Because of their causalbehaviour or not focused on their entire job, such kind of problems got arises. The relatives mustbe aware about the condition and all the tests that should be done with Stoll. They must be3

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