Patient falls while nurses were busy with another patient: court finds negligence.

Legal Eagle Eye. Newsletter for the Nursing Profession › Vol. 14 Nbr. 6, June 2006

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Patient falls while nurses were busy with another patient: court finds negligence.

The Court of Appeals of Ohio ruled that the hospital's psychiatric specialty nurses were negligent and that their negligence was the legal cause behind the patient's injuries from her fall.

The jury's verdict which exonerated the nurses w...

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