Ms. Vivian Bearing Case Study

As healthcare professionals, our main duties should always be to improve the quality of healthcare by providing the best possible patient-centered care and by maintaining patient’s rights of privacy, dignity, health and well-being regardless of the one’s diagnosis. In the case of Ms. Vivian Bearing, a stage 4 ovarian cancer patient under the care of Dr. Kelekian and his intern medical student Jason Posner, the above statements were awfully violated as she was deprived not only from receiving optimal patient-centered care but her rights of autonomy, consent, privacy and confidentiality was also compromised. For example, Dr. Kelekian used Ms. Bearing as a guinea pig to experiment on even in the presence of other medical interns during morning rotations without asking for her consent, both her body and sensitive information were exposed right …show more content…
Bearing primary nurse, Susie Monahan as she provided her with compassionate and respectful care. As a registered nurse myself, I was pleased at the way she represented the nursing profession in a very positive and professional way. Her role characterized what nurses do on a regular basis in order to advocate for their patients. Nurse Susie also went to a great length to advocate and promoting Ms. Bearing’s autonomy. For example, she took it upon herself to provide necessary patient teaching about full code and DNR/DNI status to Ms. Bearing, and making sure that she is fully aware that the choice is hers to make and not the medical team. She demonstrated patient advocacy both when Ms. Bearing was alive and dead. For example, she advocates for Ms. Bearing when she was experiencing adverse reactions and intervened by asking the doctors to lower the dose. And she intervened when Ms. Bearing coded and advocates for her by making certain that her decisions was honored, which was not provide