In the Good Samaritan Home case, multiple nursing aids were accused of tormenting patients in Albert Lea, Minnesota. There were 8 total but two of the aides had no record of any criminal charges against them. 2 of the nursing aides, Ashton Larson and Brianna Broitzman, were convicted with fifth-degree assault, abuse of vulnerable adult by caregiver, abuse of a vulnerable adult with sexual contact, disorderly conduct and failing to report suspected maltreatment (Turley, 2008). Both Ashton and Brianna were sentenced to serve a 60-day jail term as soon as the court hearing was over(Press, 2011). These case facts did give a rise to a criminal case and could have to a civil case between Good Samaritan Society and the nursing home that the incidents
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False imprisonment was a bigger choice because they kept the patients in their rooms to torment them and cause problems for them and to me, you must be unhealthy in the mind to do such a thing to someone. In addition, I picked fraud due to the fact the nursing aides took all the rights away from the patients when they were taunting and tormenting them. Invasion of privacy was picked as well and lastly because they invaded the patient’s privacy by groping them, poking them, touching their private parts, etc (Turley, 2008). The nursing staff and administration of the employees should be responsible for their employee’s actions as they are the ones who hired them, and they should take all the responsibility for their actions as well as the employees are in control of their own actions too. The doctrine identified in our textbook, (Stanford & Connor, 2014) (p.135), is called “the doctrine of respondeat superior (“let the master answer”)” which means that the nursing aide staff or upper staff, over the nursing staff, are also at fault for the incidents that took place between those months of
False imprisonment was a bigger choice because they kept the patients in their rooms to torment them and cause problems for them and to me, you must be unhealthy in the mind to do such a thing to someone. In addition, I picked fraud due to the fact the nursing aides took all the rights away from the patients when they were taunting and tormenting them. Invasion of privacy was picked as well and lastly because they invaded the patient’s privacy by groping them, poking them, touching their private parts, etc (Turley, 2008). The nursing staff and administration of the employees should be responsible for their employee’s actions as they are the ones who hired them, and they should take all the responsibility for their actions as well as the employees are in control of their own actions too. The doctrine identified in our textbook, (Stanford & Connor, 2014) (p.135), is called “the doctrine of respondeat superior (“let the master answer”)” which means that the nursing aide staff or upper staff, over the nursing staff, are also at fault for the incidents that took place between those months of