Table of Contents
- Informed Consent: Patient Did Not Ask, Doctor Did Not Tell
- Proximate Cause: Nurse Uses Rubber Catheter on a Pregnant Patient Allergic
to Rubber
- Loss of Chance: Nurses Leave Patient in Distress
- U. S. Supreme Court Defines Sexual Harassment
- Nursing-Home Negligence: Patient Chokes on Food
- Charting By Exception: Conservative Treatment Before Resorting to Surgery
- Nurse Claims Hospital Should Have Disciplined Her Progressively
- Nurse Fails to Spot Inconsistent Physicians’ Instructions
- Court Turns Down Paramedics’ Assertion of Governmental Immunity
- “Qualified and Talented” Nurse Falls Victim to Alcohol Abuse
- Nurse Terminated For Refusing to “Stay Out Of It”
- Unauthorized Disclosure: Nurse Spreads Word That Patient Has AIDS
- Wrongful Living: Nurse Resuscitates Patient Despite No “Code Blue”
- Nurse Threatens Patient That Filing a Lawsuit Will Result in Blacklisting
- Freedom of Speech: Nurse Is Suspended For Speaking Out
- Nurse Refusing to Treat Terminally Ill Patient Is Herself Terminated
- Schizophrenic Patient Escapes Psychiatric Center And Commits Murder
- Nurse Is Second Guessed After Patient Suffers Severe Mental Retardation
- Is a Nurse Working for a Registry an Employee or Independent Contractor?
- Employer Held Vicariously Liable For the Criminal Acts of Employee
- Good Samaritan Immunity Lasts Till the Emergency Lasts
- Workers’ Compensation Awarded to Nurse Injured on Way to Work
- Captain-of-the-Ship Doctrine: Does the Nurse Work For the Hospital or the
Physician?
- Charting Was the Weakest Link
- Refusal to “Float” Sinks The Nurse
- Termination Without Just Cause: Inexperienced Nurse Gets Fired After Four
Weeks
- Patient Asked to Leave If He Didn’t Like How Hospital Was Run
- Law Does Not Permit Monday Morning Quarterbacking
- Speaking Out: Nurse Reports Doctor Examining Patient in the Lobby
- Statute of Limitations: Patient Discovers a Sponge Years Later
- Automatic Doors Get Closed on the Patient, Hospital Gets Pinched
- Organ Donation: Good Faith Effort to Obtain Relative’s Consent
- Hospital Fails to Provide Specially-Trained Professional Nurse
- Overworked Nurse Falls Asleep At the Wheel on the Way Home
- Pregnant Nurse Refuses to Treat HIV-Infected Patient, Gets Terminated
- AFP Testing Would Have Detected Spina Bifida
- Nurse’s Medical Records Cannot Be Subpoenaed For Disciplinary Purposes
- Nurse Faces Retaliation For Speaking Tagalog On the Job
- Nurse Disobeys Orders to Remove Patient, Is Herself Removed
- Nurses Lack Bedside Manner
- Nurse “Pulled Something” After Lifting 00- to 00-lbPatient
- Patient Dumping: Hospital Refuses Treatment to an Indigent Patient
- Patient Sexually Assaulted by Intruder: Was Harm to Patient Forseeable?
- Post-Test