Elite Learning, a comprehensive online learning destination for licensed professionals, today announced the release of The Nurse's Casebook, a scenario-based guide featuring malpractice cases to help ...

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, ...

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A Pennsylvania nursing home that employed a nurse convicted of murdering three patients and plotting to kill 19 others says its insurance carrier is trying to skip out on as much as $2.5 million in ...

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 ...

In this courtroom sketch, Hon. Karen Rothenberg listens as plaintiff’s attorney David J. Fischman (standing), of the law firm Jaroslawicz & Jaros, addresses the jury in the medical malpractice trial ...

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 ...

On April 23, 2020, the Kaiser Family Foundation (“KFF”) issued a report authored by Priya Chidambaram entitled, “State Reporting of Cases and Deaths Due to COVID-19 in Long-Term Care Facilities.” In ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today on The Law & You “Is it malpractice if my wound got infected because my hospital nurse didn’t change dressings during a ...