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Something as simple as buying a bottle of water from the corner never seemed dangerous right. Apparently someone posted a video and photo of a few cases of water brought at a Walmart and there were bubbles at the top of the bottles. This got turned all around in a rumor saying don't buy bottle water someone is injecting poison into them and people are dying. This rumor is completely false. In the social media post no states were mention but the city "Richmond." "suggesting that the rumor may have started as a riff on a 3 March 2018 Facebook post purporting to offer photographic proof that the caps of nearly all of the bottles of water in a shrink-wrapped package purchased at in Bennington, Vermont had been pierced with a pin, needle, or similar sharp object. The following is the link to the actual Facebook posting. " (snopes) https://us-east-1.tchyn.io/snopes-production/uploads/2018/03/bottled-water-bennington.jpg ". Richmond, CA was contacted and th...

I am going to be writing about the ethical dilemma in healthcare that is all to familiar and that is a patients last wishes. I have seen it so many times so far though out my healthcare career that a patients wishes were not honored. There is specific codes that we have to take when we are in healthcare and here are a few. Included among these is the International Council of Nurses’ ICN Code of Ethics. This states that nurses, in addition to carrying out their main responsibilities of promoting health, mitigating suffering, and preventing illness in patients, must also display “a respect for human rights, including cultural rights, the right to life and choice, to dignity, and to be treated with respect”.   The code also states that while nurses are primarily responsible to those individuals who require nursing care, they must also render services to families and communities. This makes it clear that nurses have a wide range of responsibilities to a wide range of in...