Tag Archives: professional negligence
Was the Extubation of the Patient the Cause of her Death?
In last month’s bulletin, Miller v. Markowitz, Dalecki and Memorial Hospital For Cancer & Allied Disease, 1 was reviewed with a focus [...]
What is a Nurse Manager’s Liability for Patient Care?
I often get questions about being a “charge nurse” or being a nurse manager on a unit. Many of the nurses who ask this question are [...]
Defenses to a Professional Negligence Suit
The statute of limitations, discussed in an earlier bulletin, is one of the defenses to a professional negligence action. A second, [...]
You be the Jury #4
It is time to discover what happened in the real case upon which the adopted case in the bulletin was based. The actual ending is [...]
You be the Jury #1
In previous bulletins, topics such as professional negligence, liability, and the burden of proof have been covered. It might be [...]
Professional Negligence: A Brief Primer
The first Bulletin covered the topic of liability and briefly discussed a nurse licensee’s potential involvement in several types of [...]