What is the difference between the hospice doctor ordering Roxanol and his patients die and the lone nurse who takes it upon herself to poison her patients and her patients die?
Darned if I know.
None---
Same as the nurse how wasn't bolusing a tube feeding at night on a 20 something man in a 'vegetative' state. He was losing weight hand over fist and I was pulling my hair out, upping the volume, changing the feeding etc.
It wasn't until the Central Supply manager was doing a pick-up sweep of some back cabinets that she found about a month's worth of cans that weren't used.
The difference is that doctors have a "license to kill."
Nurses don't. So what' the difference between all
doctors who prescribe morphine/roxanol and Dr. Kavorkian?
Only locale. The doctor has the sanctity of the hospice/
hospital. Dr. Kavorkian stupidly practiced his assisted
suicide inside a truck!
The nurse isn't high enough in "the heirarchy" (at least at present), to make such a decision. One must be either a doctor, or may G-d have mercy on us, a lawyer, to make such a determination (/sarcasm)...
the infowarrior