Medical Errors and Patient Centered Care

IV in arm as component of patient centered care

As a legal nurse consultant, you see medical errors from the perspective of what has already happened. Not listening to the concerns of staff nurses may have played a part in the events leading up to the medical error. Medical Errors and Patient Centered Care “That will never work”, the staff nurse says to her…

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Medical malpractice: It only takes a moment

two physicians looking at x-ray

Accidents can happen in a moment, forever altering your life. Medical malpractice only takes a moment. One night last month, my husband and I were driving separately down a dark road to our house. I was ahead of him. I heard a screech of brakes, and a bang and crash of metal hitting metal. I…

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