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NURSE INTUBATES PATIENT AND IS BARRED FROM HOSPITAL….WHAT IF???

Around the year 2008 an agency nurse intubated a patient that was obtunded, had decreased respirations, and decreased oxygen saturation and was ultimately barred from the hospital….What If…that nurse had not performed the intubation and the patient had coded and died. The setting is a level one teaching hospital ICU that has a residency/fellowship program.  […]