Recently added articles from Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession:
Psychiatric nursing: facility followed the standard of care, patient's suit dismissed.(Case overview)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The patient in question was admitted to the hospital's psychiatric department for treatment of depression. Another patient was admitted with agitation and paranoia for treatment of schizophrenia. Her pre-admission history included reports that she had been "picking fights with ...
Respiratory depression: nurse failed to monitor, chart vitals while giving versed.(Case overview)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The forty year-old patient was diagnosed with probable acute renal failure and sepsis soon after arriving at the hospital around noon. The physicians were not able to admit him to a med/surg unit right away and had to keep him in the emergency department. At 8:30 p.m ....
Narcotics: death blamed on nurses' failure to monitor.(Brief article)(Case overview)
Jun 01, 2009 ... The patient had a CT scan which traced his flank pain to a kidney stone and urine backed up in his right kidney. The physicians began ordering significant doses of narcotics for pain management and IV saline for hydration to help him pass the stone. The deceased' ...
Supervised visits: patients' privacy rights.(Brief article)(Case overview)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Patients at a state-operated psychiatric facility filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York challenging the facility's newly-adopted practice of supervising some of the patients' visitations. The court ruled the patients' privacy rights were ...
Stroke: nurses did not attend to patient.(Brief article)(Case overview)
Jun 01, 2009 ... Two weeks after having a transient ischemic attack the patient was brought to the emergency room with left-sided weakness and slurred speech. Blood was taken for lab work and the patient was classified as urgent. However, for the first five hours that the patient ...