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Case Highlights Role of Nurse in OB Safety
Nurses are perceived as highly skilled and educated professionals who are charged with making clinical observations, exercising discretion, and taking appropriate treatment actions based on a patient’s changing clinical picture.
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Nurses Should Understand Their Risk in OB Malpractice
It is critical for nurses to adhere to specialty standards and recommendations to avoid legal action in case of a patient injury.
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Careful Log of Time, Incidents Can Be Crucial to Defense
OB malpractice cases often hinge on the fine details of when certain events happened, when steps were taken, and how much time passed before clinicians intervened to protect the patient.
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OB Risk Reduction Focuses on Nurses, Detailed Timelines
Obstetrical malpractice claims make up only a portion of all cases, yet they demand an undue amount of attention from risk managers and defense attorneys.
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Health Equity Study Finds ‘Fundamental Lack Of Fairness’
The burdens of disease and the benefits of good health are inequitably distributed in the U.S. due to factors that range from poverty and inadequate housing to structural racism and discrimination, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Study: Ethics Consults Happen Earlier If Patient Is Female
Clinical ethicists at Springfield, IL-based Memorial Medical Center suspected that ethics consultations about limiting treatment were being requested earlier in patients’ hospital stays for African-Americans than for other patients.
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Overly Strict Criteria For Clinical Trials Is Ethical Problem
Clinical trials routinely use overly strict enrollment criteria, found a recent study.
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Ethical Responses if Clinician Is Asked to Help Law Enforcement
When emergency medicine clinicians are caring for a patient in the custody of law enforcement, multiple ethical issues must be considered.
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Big Data in Healthcare: Privacy Is Major Ethical Concern
Healthcare privacy is a central ethical concern involving the use of big data in healthcare, with vast amounts of personal information widely accessible electronically.
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Pediatric End-Of-Life Care: An ‘Additional Layer Of Complexity’
Ethicists can encourage clinicians to consider language used to communicate with parents and ask about the family’s values to ensure ethical pediatric end-of-life care.