Vol. 17 Nbr. 4, April 2009

Index

• Pregnancy discrimination: light-duty policy must be applied uniformly, pregnant or not.
• Protective custody: hospital staff did not violate rights of intoxicated E.R. patient.
• UTI: negligent care implicated in patient's death from sepsis.
• Psychiatric commitment denied: disabled resident able to sue for malicious prosecution.
• Emergency room: Court accepts unusually detailed statement of the standard of care for nursing assessment of pediatric patients.
• EMTALA: nurses did not violate the law.
• Labor & delivery: lapse in fetal monitoring.
• Pathology: nurse faulted, did not send specimen to the lab.
• Diabetic patient dead from hypoglycemia: jury finds no nursing negligence.
• Facts conceled from family: no negligence, but civil fraud lawsuit can go forward.
• Premature hospital discharge: nurse faulted in patient's death.
• False-negative HIV test: patient suicide was not outside the realm of possibility, court says.
• Gunshot wound: jury faults care given in E.R.
• Weight gain: disabled patient obtains settlement.