The document discusses medication errors involving nurses Julie Thao and Kimberly Hiatt, and seeks to derive lessons for healthcare professionals from their cases. It emphasizes the application of the principles of beneficence and the virtue of benevolence, while also questioning the ethical and legal handling by hospital administrators. Furthermore, it explores additional virtues exhibited by colleagues that could have supported Thao and Hiatt, and suggests personal virtues beneficial for second victims in coping with grief.

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