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Medication Errors Led to Disastrous Outcomes
Search the internet and learn about the cases of nurses Julie Thao and
Kimberly Hiatt.
1. List and discuss lessons that you and all healthcare professionals can learn
from these two cases.
2. Describe how the principle of beneficence and the virtue of benevolence could
be applied to these cases. Do you think the hospital adminstrators handled the
situations legally and ethically?
3. In addition to benevolence, which other virtues exhibited by their colleagues
might have helped Thao and Hiatt?
4. Discuss personal virtues that might be helpful to second victims themselves to
navigate the grieving process.