Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession

Online Edition 2024

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Cumulative Online Edition Index 2013 - 2024

 

September 2024 = http://www.nursinglaw.com/september2024/september2024.pdf

Physician/Nurse/Confrontation/Discrimination/Age/Gender

Bedside Commode/Nursing Negligence  -  Skin Care/Documentation

Suicidal Patient/Patient Assessment/Independent Nursing Judgment

Conflicting Physicians’ Orders  -  Nurse Practitioner/Cancer Diagnosis

Transgender Nurse/Hostile Work Environment  -  Peer Review

Tourette’s/Nurse/Disability Discrimination  -  Nurse Testimony

Skin Care/Nursing Negligence/Cause And Effect  -  EMTALA

Nursing Student/Service Animal  -  Nurse/Age Discrimination

 

August 2024 = http://www.nursinglaw.com/august2024/august2024.pdf

Nurse/Disability Discrimination/Reasonable Accommodation

Nursing Home/Statute Of Limitations  -  Narcan/Blood Glucose

Involuntary Mental Health Commitment/Gravely Disabled

Nurse/Civil Rights/Private Security  -  Patient v. Nurse/Sex Harassment

Discrimination/Racially Hostile Environment  -  Sleeping On Duty

Nurse As Patient Advocate  -  Patient Fall/Standard Of Care

Nurse/Invasion Of Patient Privacy  -  Defective Wheelchair/Spoliation

Medicare & Medicaid/Conditions Of Participation  -  Voting Rights

 

July 2024 = http://www.nursinglaw.com/july2024/july2024.pdf

Nursing Expert/Standard Of Care/Conclusory Opinion

Suboxone/Disability Discrimination  -  Addiction Unit/Cell Phones

CNA Training/Negligence  -  Nurse/Patient/Intimate Relationship

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act/Abortion  -  Nursing Credentials

Nurse/Age Discrimination  -  Nurse/Religious Discrimination

Sexual Assault/Nurse vs. Patient  -  Arbitration/Patient Signature

Nurse/Workers Compensation  -  Nurse/FMLA Forms/Signature

Healthcare Mandatory Reporters  -  Nurse/Patient Advocate/Liability

 

June 2024 = http://www.nursinglaw.com/june2024/june2024.pdf

Disability Discrimination/Reasonable Accommodation

Pressure Sores/Nurse/Expert Witness  -  Falls/Nurse/Expert Witness

Child Abuse/Neglect/Newborn  -  Mental Health Commitment

Employment/Arbitration Agreement  -  Statute Of Limitations

Nurse/Last Chance Agreement  -  Employment/Constructive Discharge

Skin Integrity  -  Shooting/Hospital  -  Reasonable Accommodation

EMTALA/Medical Screening Exam  -  Statute Of Limitations

Long Term Care/Minimum Staffing  -  Prior Authorization 

 

May 2024 = http://www.nursinglaw.com/may2024/may2024.pdf

Nursing Leadership/Emergency Department/Hospital Liability

Circulating Nurse/Needle Left Inside Patient  -  Independent Physician

Mental Health Worker/Traumatic Stress  -  Patient Suicide By Cop

Caucasian Only Patient Request  -  Gay Nurse/Hostile Environment

Hostile Work Environment/Retaliation  -  Personnel Decisions

Discrimination/Right To Counsel  -  Nursing Home Malpractice

Minimum Nurse Staffing/Long Term Care  -  Obstetric Nursing

Patient Refuses To Leave  -  Arbitration/Nursing Home Cases

 

April 2024 = http://www.nursinglaw.com/april2024/april2024.pdf

Nurse/Diversion/Addiction/Rehabilitation/Nursing License

ICU Nursing/Unexplained Fractures  -  Medicare/Medicaid

Psychiatric Patient/Accidental Drowning  -  Professional Negligence

Racially Hostile Workplace  -  FMLA/Interference/Working On Leave

Class Action/Nurse Employment Contract  -  Nursing Home Negligence

ICU Visitor  -  EMTALA/Chronic Condition  -  Nurse/Pro Se Litigant

Deaf Patient/Deliberate Indifference  -  Guardianship  -  Limitations

Forensic Nursing/Patient Confidentiality  -  Union/Fair Representation

 

March 2024 - http://www.nursinglaw.com/march2024/march2024.pdf

Nurse/Whistleblower/Patient Care/Patient Health And Safety

Patient Suicide/Nurses Assessment  -  Hoyer Lift/Standard Of Care

Involuntary Mental Health Medication/Patient’s Freedom Of Choice

Nurse/Narcotics Diversion  -  Discrimination/Race/Color

Discrimination/Reasonable Accommodation  -  Nursing Student

Nursing License/Credit Report  -  Nurse As Expert Witness

Nursing Home Placement/Fraud  -  Religious Discrimination

In Vitro Fertilization  -  Emergency Room/Search Warrant

 

February 2024 = http://www.nursinglaw.com/february2024/february2024.pdf

Nurse As Patient Advocate/Physician’s Negligence/Liability

Spoliation Of The Evidence/Video Recording  -  Spoliation/Chart

Spoliation Of The Evidence/Anesthesia Monitor Strips Not Printed

Nursing Faculty/Publish Or Perish/Discrimination  -  Retaliation

Patient Abuse  -  Home Health/Reasonable Accommodation

Prison Nursing  -  Choking  -  Drainage Tube/Retained Inside Patient

Care Plan/Ordinary Negligence/Professional Negligence

EMTALA/Patient Removed  -  Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner

 

January 2024 = http://www.nursinglaw.com/january2024/january2024.pdf

Freedom Of Speech/Verbal Abuse/Patient's Constitutional Rights

Patient Fall/Nursing Negligence/Standard Of Care/Violation

Violence On Hospital Premises/Notice Of Unreasonable Hazard

Union Grievance/Duty Of Fair Representation  -  Nurse/Expert Witness

Spanish Accent/Bias/Communication  -  Discrimination Retaliation

Home Health  -  Wheelchair Fall  -  Hypertensive Crisis/Nurse

Unfair Labor Practice/Anti-Union Bias  -  Arbitration Agreement

Contraband In Patient's Clothing/Search  -  Nurse Expert Witness