Officer Sandula and I were administering the 2100 hours medications in Cell 6. It was approximately 2035 hours when I opened the cell door and Robert Edmund Logan (A-15679) came up to take his Remeron 30mg. When administering medications in Cell 6 inmate Logan came up to take his, I asked him if this was the right pill and he replied “yes” he put it in his mouth and drank coffee with it. After he swallowed, I asked him to show me the inside of his mouth and it appeared that he had taken his medication. I said he was clear and correctional Officer Sandula observed that he had spit his pill back into his coffee cup. When asked if he had swallowed his pill he replied “I think so” and he said it was not in his drink. Officer Sandula and I examined
...92‘s Riggins v. Nevada, and 1990‘s Washington v. Harper. In Harper, the court determined that prison inmates could be forcibly medicated if they were a danger to themselves or others, and if the medication was medically appropriate. Riggins, in turn, decided that a defendant already on trial could be forcibly medicated to ensure his competency and allow for the proceedings to continue smoothly, in essence bulldozing one’s 14th amendment rights to “accomplish essential state policy” (Riggins, 1992, as cited in Breneman, 2004, p. 971). Riggins also proclaimed that forcible medication must be the least invasive means of treatment, and provide minimal side effects. Sell was clearly the child of these two rulings, fusing the competing interests of governmental prosecution with the liberty and safety of the defendant.
In the case of Tomcik v. Ohio Dep’t of Rehabilitation & Correction, the main issue present was the medical negligence demonstrated by the staff of the medical clinic at the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction towards the inmate Tomcik. Specifically, nonfeasance, or the “failure to act, when there is a duty to act as a reasonably prudent person would in similar circumstances” (Pozgar, 2016, p. 192), was displayed when the employees at the medical clinic failed to give immediate medical attention to Tomcik when she continually signed the clinic list and “provided the reason she was requesting
The nurse, a traveling nurse, was working on a unit and received orders for infusion of normal saline in a 7 month old. He saw a small bag of what appeared to be saline on the desk in the nurse’s station, with the manufacturer’s pre-printed labeling indicating that it was filled with normal saline. One key aspect, as described by the traveling nurse, was that he had encountered in other health systems that pediatric infusions were specified in small bags. Based upon these two perceptions, the nurse administered the infusion – despite the pharmacy applied label being on the other side of the bag. Needless to say, the child died shortly after receiving the infusion, despite resuscitation attempts. The infusion was actually prepared for his adult patient
If these individuals were required to take their medications, they wouldn’t be in and out of prison (Earley, 2006).
Mr. T is a 48-year-old Korean-American male admitted to Mercy Medical Center for heart palpitations following a call to the Behavioral Health help hotline. As a result of the call to the helpline, the police were called and Mr. T was initially brought to the Emergency Department. He told medical staff he was depressed and had ingested somewhere around 10 Xanax pills. Mr. T has bipolar disorder with possible borderline personality disorder characteristics. He was “nasty” to the staff and refused to give consent to treatment regarding his heart condition, for which he has a pacemaker, as well as any type of psychiatric evaluation.
On 11/23/17, at approximately 1718 hours, I escorted Inmate Lemke, Tyler T372795 out of Durango 6 for questioning. I read Inmate Lemke his Miranda Rights from the standard issued Miranda Rights Card. I asked If Inmate Lemke understood his rights? Inmate Lemke stated, "Yes." I asked Inmate Lemke if he was willing to answer any of my questions? Inmate Lemke stated, "Yes." I asked Inmate Lemke If he knew if there was any known contraband discovered in his cell (#17) on 11/22? Inmate Lemke stated, "No." I asked Inmate Lemke if he was sure he had no idea that there was a shank in his cell? Inmate Lemke stated, "No." I asked Inmate Lemke If he knew who the shank belonged to? Inmate Lemke stated, "No."
“Nurse Practitioner Criminal: How to Avoid Being One” by Bupport (2016), posts the problem of how did a nurse practitioner get into a situation of imprisonment for illegal prescribing, and could it have been avoided? The topic of illegal prescribing is extremely important when thinking about my future personal practice.
Officer Clay Collins is a Sheriff and Guard for the Charles County Sheriff’s department and has been with their department for over ten years. He was born and raised in Washington D.C but moved to La Plata, Maryland at the age 16. He is currently attending the University of Mary Washington and majoring in Criminal Justice. He is the husband to Heather McKeown Collins, a professor at the College of Southern Maryland and father of two Claire and Connor Collins. Clay has not graduated college yet but plans to finish in 2018 with a bachelor’s in criminal Justice. He entered Mary Washington his freshmen year undeclared
As the lead prosecutor, the first fact that I would convey to my investigators is that the system was broken. Shipman was fired from the Todmorden Medical Center for forging prescriptions in order to support his addiction to pain medicine. He should have lost his medical license from the General Medical Council (GMC) and that would kept him from being able to practice ever again (Batty, 2005). Instead, the GMC only sent him a stern letter denouncing his actions, but allowed him to continue to practice medicine once he completed rehabilitation. As a result of the negligence of the GMC, anyone who ever looked into Shipman’s medical history, his forgery and addiction would not have been revealed by the GMC. Shipman resumed his medical profession in Hyde, England in which his patient’s high death rate came into question. The police failed to properly investigate the coroner’s concerns by not even running a criminal history on Shipman, which could have revealed his
considered a thief because they took the medications from the hospital without any consent or
In 2011, the media reported that in US prisons a sedative used for death penalty purposes was not being used as intended by the pharmaceutical company Lundbeck. The drug Nembutal as well as others were mixed into a cocktail and administered to prisoners undergoing the death penalty. Lundbeck got word of this from
Instead that it was the duty of the radiology technician to assess the patient and get additional assistance when necessary. A radiology expert witness retained by the plaintiff criticized each of the defendants. “The expert testified in a deposition that the hospital should have provided at least one other person to assist the technologist so that the patient would not have to stand unassisted. The expert also charged that the technologist acted improperly by permitting the patient to stand alone and that the technologist should have requested additional help. The expert criticized the defendant radiologist for not remaining in the room to supervise the technologist until the entire examination had been completed. The expert stated that the radiologist had a duty to appropriately supervise the actions of the technologist and that his failure to do so constituted a breach of the standard of care” (Berlin, par. 4). However, an expert radiologist retained by the defense supported the actions of the defendant radiologist, testifying that the hospital should be the one to determine how many technologists and how much assistance was needed for conducting lower gastrointestinal examinations. The expert for the defense agreed that it was the responsibility of the radiologist to
I believe the chain of command is important in a police agency for many reasons. It is a roadmap that shows the route within the organization that order would flow coming down through the organization or that requests flow going up the organization, like a two-way street. The chain of command also establishes formal lines of communication within the department for organizational purposes and it must be used by everyone to communicate formally. This will eliminate crucial departmental problems. For example, if the chief administrative level does not follow the chain of command downward and gives an order directly to the patrol officer, this could cause confusion. For example, the supervisory level might feel that it is alright to do the same thing sending information up the chain. The purpose of the chain of command is to show individuals who their bosses are, from the chief
The issue first arose when two death row prisoners in Oklahoma challenged the state’s use of the three-drug
Each year the number of cop deaths increase every year. The average age of the deceased law enforcement officer was 09 years of age with 13 years of experience. Which the chance of being killed is 6 out of 10 officers when dealing with assaults. The average rate of an officer killed accidently in the line of death in 2009, was 35 years old and with an average of serving 9 years!