Nursing malpractice: cause for consideration

Nurs Manage. 1999 Feb;30(2):12-3.

Abstract

Because so many factors influence a patient's health, it's difficult to know with certainty that a nurse's error actually caused the negative outcome. In nursing malpractice cases, causation can be a successful defense strategy.

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Malpractice / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Nurse Administrators / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Nursing Staff, Hospital / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Nursing Staff, Hospital / standards*
  • United States