Medical Legal Hazards In Nursing

Healthcare - Overview - Occupational Safety and Health …

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They include bloodborne pathogens and biological hazards, potential chemical and drug exposures, waste anesthetic gas exposures, respiratory hazards, ergonomic hazards from lifting and repetitive tasks, laser hazards, workplace violence, hazards associated with …

Here Are The Legal Issues Nurses Need to Know

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While nursing is a rewarding career, providing care to others brings its own share of liability issues. From malpractice to inappropriate information disclosure, there …

Nursing and Patient Safety | PSNet

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How Nurses Can Safely Report Workplace Issues …

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Issues Nurses Report. Nurse practitioners and staff RNs report a variety of problems within health care facilities. Frequently …

Hazardous Chemicals in Nursing | Health and Safety | ANA

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Hazardous Chemicals. Nurses face many chemical hazards in the workplace. Hazardous drugs, commercial cleaning products, sterilants/disinfectants, and pesticides are …

Update: RaDonda Vaught Sentenced to 3 Years Supervised …

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Like overrides, nurses can support safety by reporting false alarms and unnecessary alerts, both for the sake of efficiency and avoiding medical errors. 5. …

Legal risks of nurses charting by exception | NSO

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A lack of detail could compromise patient safety as well. A patient’s medical record is expected to accurately reflect his current condition, and a chart that’s missing pertinent …

The top four medicolegal risks to be aware of in your …

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Confidentiality is key to maintaining trust between patients and practitioner and you have a legal and ethical duty to keep all sensitive patient information confidential. …

Avoiding easy mistakes- Five medicolegal …

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What is important is that you know how to respond to mistakes in the correct way. Many doctors are unsure about how medicine and law interact; this may reflect a lack of teaching in medical school or a …