hospital scenario

For this activity please have a discussion about the following topic:

Scenario – “In a hospital that has just experienced staff radiographer layoffs, a senior radiography student is assigned to the surgical rotation with a staff technologist. The staff technologist is sent home early because of a low procedure count, and shortly thereafter a Disaster Code is called. Several accident patients are arriving, and some of them are going to surgery. The student is sent to surgery while the staff radiographers are busy with trauma patients in the department.

During the surgical procedure the C-Arm (X-ray machine) malfunctions and the student cannot correct the problem. By the time the staff radiographer arrives to fix the machine, the patient has died. The surgeon is furious with the student and shares this anger with the other surgeons.”

What would you do if you were the student? (In the scenario the events have already happened, do not state that you would not have gotten into the situation)
Which style of conflict resolution seems most appropriate in this scenario?
Going forward, how can this be avoided in the future?