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12 Tips for New Nurses: How Your Jobs Lead to Trouble

Nov 16, 2013 by ArtiModi

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These twelve tips represent common traps affecting nurses, as shared by JoAnn Pietro, RN, Esq, who practices employment law at Wahrenberger and Pietro. New graduates should not be placed in complex clinical areas that demand more knowledge, experience, and critical [...]

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Battling AIDS

Jun 10, 2013 by ArtiModi

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Medical malpractice attorneys occasionally receive calls about cases involving patients who have been stuck by needles and are afraid they’ve contracted AIDS. Sometimes these are patients stuck by needles that have been carelessly left in bed linen. AIDS remains a [...]

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Why Doctors Should Not Testify to the Nursing Standard of Care

May 28, 2013 by ArtiModi

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Increasingly, states are not permitting physicians to testify about nursing standard of care. The Illinois case called Sullivan V. Edward Hospital, 806 NE 645 (Ill. 2004) involved a man who climbed over side rails and was found on the floor [...]

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Cardiac Arrest After Surgery

May 09, 2013 by ArtiModi

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This is so clearly a case of respiratory distress leading to cardiac arrest after surgery. The 62-year-old plaintiff underwent a carotid endarterectomy and an angioplasty. During the first postoperative day, the plaintiff had what the plaintiffs claimed were the signs [...]

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12 Tips for New Nurses: How Your Jobs Lead to Trouble

Battling AIDS

Why Doctors Should Not Testify to the Nursing Standard of Care

Cardiac Arrest After Surgery

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