Discussion Forum: patho forum #6
Case Study: Failure to Diagnose Pulmonary Embolism Results in Patient’s Untimely Death
To prepare:
Review the case study at this website https://www.medpro.com/cs-dxerror-pulmonaryembolism (Links to an external site.)
Then Answer the following questions:
1. What were the patient’s signs and symptoms you first noted?
2. What factors do you think primarily contributed to the patients death?
3. As a future Nurse Practitioner do you think this untimely death could be averted and how?
4. As a future nurse practitioner what aspects of your nursing career do you believe would have been an asset in preventing this error?
