Essay On Tort Of Negligence

Tort of negligence is when you fail to meet the standard of care required by the law, which causes harm of damage to the other party, which falls below an expected standard of care (Crips & Taylor 2008). When we owe a duty of care to someone, we are responsible for the breach of duty. In negligence, it doesn’t matter that the person who caused the injury did not mean to do so because the purpose of the action is to recover damage for the injury (Crisp & Taylor 2008). The safe way for the nurses to avoid being involved in actions related to negligence is to maintain proper standards of care, maintain safe environment for patients, good communication, know the competences, document correctly, maintain good relation with the patients. Nurses …show more content…
This was preventable but due to medical error and not being able to treat that timely as caused her life. Therefore, the doctors and nurses fall under tort of negligence. The breach of duty of care has occurred in here by the nurses and Doctors. When the quality of life was compromised the nurses and doctor should have been alert that its effecting her. It all started when they stapling device didn’t fire properly which lead to inadequate closure of the cut stomach and suture technique was employed, following glue was used to close the stomach. All this procedure wasn’t enough to prevent leakage. It was also noted that operation took little longer than the normal laparoscopic. It was clear that Dr Ahmad was not successful in closing the leak, which lead to the death of julienne. The leakage was infected and julienne presented with early sign of sepsis too. In the documentation it was recorded she was sweating a lot and her blood pressure was 166/88 where as before its been on a low side as 100/56. Julienne also presented with sign such as shoulder tip pain and green fluid, which indicated a bile leak, was found in drain. It was clear that she was suffering from