Tagged: nursing negligence

Case types

Case types · Nov 9, 2026 · 10 min read

Post-Operative Opioid Overdose: Nurse Failure to Monitor

A post-operative opioid overdose is a nursing failure to monitor when the chart shows warning signs that nurses missed, ignored, or did not act on. These signs include rising sedation, slowing or shallow breathing, and snoring with pauses. It is not automatically nursing negligence, because some events trace back to...

For attorneys

For attorneys · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Can a Physician Testify on Nursing Standard of Care?

Whether a physician can testify about the nursing standard of care depends on the jurisdiction. How courts generally approach it, why nurses often cannot address causation, and how to pair nurse and physician experts.

Case types

Case types · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Central Line Infections (CLABSI) and Nursing Care

How a nurse reviewer evaluates a central line infection case: the insertion and maintenance bundle, the line documentation that proves or disproves daily care, the records to request, and why not every CLABSI is a breach.

For attorneys

For attorneys · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Deposing a Nurse in a Malpractice Case

How to prepare for and take the deposition of a bedside nurse in a malpractice case: the records to build the outline from, the topics to cover, the questions that go wrong, and where a nurse consultant helps.

Case types

Case types · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Dialysis Clinic Negligence: Records to Request

Outpatient dialysis creates a detailed record of every treatment: weights, pressures, alarms and the nurse's assessments. What to request from a dialysis clinic, and what a nurse with dialysis experience looks for in it.

Case types

Case types · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Home Health Nursing Negligence: The Visit Notes

In home health, the nurse is in the home for a short visit and gone the rest of the week, so the visit notes carry the case. How a home health nurse reads them: OASIS, the plan of care, visit frequency, missed visits and metadata.

Case types

Case types · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Hospice Neglect or Comfort Care? How to Tell

Decline at the end of life is expected, and comfort-focused care is not neglect. How an experienced hospice nurse separates the two in the record: the patient's goals, the plan of care, symptom control, visits and response to change.

For attorneys

For attorneys · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Hospital Policies in Nursing Negligence Cases

A hospital's own policies are often the first concrete measure of what a nurse should have done. Which policies to request for each case type, how to get the version in effect, and where policy evidence helps and where it falls short.

For attorneys

For attorneys · Nov 8, 2026 · 6 min read

How to Read Nursing Flowsheets in a Malpractice Case

Flowsheets hold the vital signs, assessments and intake and output that show when a patient changed and what the nurse did next. How to request them in a usable form and read them the way a nurse reviewer does.

Case types

Case types · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Insulin Errors and Hypoglycemia in the Hospital

Insulin is a high-alert drug, and hospital hypoglycemia usually follows a mismatch between the dose and the patient's food, kidneys or condition. How a nurse reviewer traces it through the MAR, glucose meter data and the protocol.

Case types

Case types · Nov 8, 2026 · 5 min read

Missed Compartment Syndrome: Neurovascular Checks

Acute compartment syndrome is a time-critical diagnosis, and the nurse's neurovascular checks are often the first and best record of when it started. What those checks should show, how they go wrong, and what to request.

Case types

Case types · Nov 8, 2026 · 6 min read

Missed DVT Prophylaxis: The Nursing Role

Ordering DVT prophylaxis is a provider decision, but giving it is nursing work. What nurses must do and document, the records that show missed doses and idle compression devices, and where causation needs a physician.