Children's Hospital Oakland: End-of-Life Dilemmas Case Solution
This is just an excerpt. This case is about LEADERSHIP & MANAGING PEOPLE
PUBLICATION DATE: March 23, 2016
After suffering extreme issues from a reasonably small surgical treatment at a California children's hospital in early December 2013, a young teenage girl was stated brain dead. To her household, the woman appeared responsive and they declined to accept the hospital's declaration that their child was deceased. The hospital organized gos to with social workers and other personnel in an effort to assist the household comprehend that their child was dead and, after 3 days, notified the household of its strategy to move the teenager's body to the morgue. The household got a kept in mind attorney to guarantee the teenager got the care the household idea was required, while the hospital employed a public relations company to end up being the hospital's voice in the concern, a relocation that may have worsened the issue. With such a complex and awful crisis that quickly unravelled, should the hospital have a policy in the occasion that household members disagree with a main medical diagnosis?