Nurses have always faced unique and complex challenges. In 2022, these challenges were exacerbated by acute and ongoing staffing shortages, demographic changes, bureaucratic and managerial demands, ...

A jury ruled in favor of the patient in a malpractice lawsuit in Georgia, in part because the nursing staff updated the patient's care record late, Kelli Rosenthal, RN, CRNI, VA-BC, a longtime nurse ...

Approximately one-third of malpractice cases involving nursing cite a breakdown in communication, according to the recently published “Malpractice Risks in Communication Failures: 2015 Annual ...

An ongoing concern about medical malpractice litigation is that it may induce provider exit, potentially affecting consumer welfare. The nursing home sector is subject to substantial litigation ...

Home care nurses were more vulnerable to professional liability claims than any other nursing specialty from 2015 to 2019, according to a new report. The findings, recently released by professional ...

Nursing homes in Louisiana would face lesser financial threats from lawsuits under a new bill the full state Senate is set to consider. The bill would expand the definition of medical malpractice to ...

A resident’s family suing a nursing home and hospice facility for medical malpractice and wrongful death can use records from previous state investigations, including survey citations, a court of ...

A medical malpractice lawsuit claims a 77-year-old woman died after nurses gave her morphine despite a documented allergy to ...

Nurses in North Carolina may need to purchase or upgrade their malpractice insurance after a recent ruling by the state Supreme Court. Last month, the court ruled nurses can be sued for following ...

After Iowa lawmakers passed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors in March, managers of an LGBTQ+ health clinic located just across the state line in Moline, Illinois, decided to start offering ...