Posts Tagged ‘Nursing Liability’

A patient arrives in the emergency department with a possible spinal cord injury. The defense attorney contacts you to find out if his client, the hospital, has exposure for the ultimate outcome of this patient. One of the first things emergency department nurses do is to assess the patient and determine if there are any…

Spinal cord injuries cause devastating injuries. Lawsuits may result with the injuries occurred as the result of someone’s negligence: falls on someone’s icy sidewalk or in a healthcare facility, or injury from motor vehicle crashes, for example. Paralysis from a spinal cord injury causes major emotional, physical, and also financial damages. Despite improvements in early recognition and…