A recent decision by the North Carolina Supreme Court overturned a 90-year-old precedent protecting nurses from liability if they were following a doctor’s order. The case has caused great concern among the medical community and could potentially result in more lawsuits against nurses.
This case outlines whether an employer can fire an employee for inappropriate social media posts. If your employer has a social media policy, familiarize yourself with it.
Can signing off on a note in a patient’s medical chart constitute provision of health care? Read our latest Legal Advisor to find out.
Medical records in a sexual assault case were obtained by the suspect’s mother, a nurse at the hospital. Read what happened in this HIPAA-based case.
The case highlights concerns regarding malpractice caps for PAs who have DSA agreements with physicians.
Delay in removal of gastric band leads to infection, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and death.
Although the facts in this month’s Legal Advisor predate the COVID-19 pandemic, the legal impact is likely to be relevant in cases that involve religious exemption for mandatory vaccines.
A litigious patient mistakenly believes that a misdiagnosis is grounds for malpractice.
The court was asked to decide whether an NP was negligent for a patient developing stage 5 kidney disease because the NP failed to educate the patient that not taking his medication could lead to this complication.
In this case, a court was asked to compel a health care provider to give ivermectin to a hospitalized patient with COVID-19. Find out how the court ruled.
