Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-q99xh Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-24T16:38:43.891Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Malpractice Screening Panels: Do Nurses Have a Role?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2021

Jane Greenlaw
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Increasing numbers of nurses are being sued for malpractice. Confirmation of this statement may be found by surveying the case law of the various jurisdictions (which reveals that lawsuits against nurses, while still not common, are more frequent) and the nursing literature (which recently evidences a marked increase in the percentage of articles dealing with professional liability and related issues).

Type
Ethical Dilemmas
Information
Nursing Law & Ethics , Volume 1 , Issue 7 , September 1980 , pp. 4 - 5
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1980

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1. For a discussion of a recent national survey of the effectiveness of the screening panels, see Curran, WJ, Screening Panels in Malpractice Cases: Some Disturbing Progress Reports, New England Journal Of Medicine 302(17):954 (April 24, 1980).CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
2. Gugino v. Harvard Community Health Plan et. al., 403 N.E. 2d 1166 (Mass. 1980).Google Scholar
3. Id., at 1167.Google Scholar

A correction has been issued for this article:

To Subscribers