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Medical Malpractice: When Can Patients Sue a Hospital for Negligence? Hospitals are responsible for their employees' negligence and me...
Malpractice Statistics

National Council of State Boards of Nursing reported that disciplinary actions for practice related issues for nurses has increased in the...
Refrain From Making Negative Comments

Bet you wondered how you were supposed to document everything but refrain from entering negative comments about the patient in the medical ...
Respondeat Superior

Latin for "let the master answer," a key doctrine in the law of agency, which provides that a principal (employer) is responsib...
Mock Trial for Medical Malpractice
Res ipsa loquitur

Res ipsa loquitur is Latin for "the thing speaks for itself". T here are 4 elements that must be met in any negligence or medica...
Listen To Your Patient!
Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing

Nurses face ethical issues that can impact the patient and themselves. It is important to know that nurses face ethical dilemma's there ...
Review Questions

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MEDICAL MALPRACTICE-STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS

How long does someone have to initiate a medical malpractice lawsuit? "The law requires that a medical malpractice lawsuit be initiat...