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Making the Transition to Professional Issues in Practice attempted to get the host be requirements Nurse Malpractice in Client Fall Ar i n Washington State, a client with a recent logo Darily seated after surgery. The nurse assigned to his ca from the room and failed to raise the bed rails. The client att bed for and was injured The client sued the hospital for negligence. Using the cies and procedures manual, the client's lawyer pointed out to s ectory precautions be taken to restrain disabled or sedate The nurse's lawyer based the defense on the argumenth was following the physician's standing orders to alow the client postoperatively to hasten recovery and prevent complications The court agreed with the client and concluded that the obligation based on the hospital's policy and procedures, to asse physical and mental condition Nurses have an obligation not to learn unattended in an unsafe bed configuration dated clients ment that the the client to ambulate ed that the nurse had a es to assess the clients not to leave clients ismiss a negligence Al lawsuits alleging health care provider negligence require pyn ness testimony. Without this, courts will almost always dismiss a negli decided by a lay jury, even when it is as obvious as a fall from bed. In this the expert testimony not only supported the lawyer's contention that the he policy and procedures upheld the suit but also emphasized the point that cler recently returned from surgery are disoriented from anesthesia and should nee be left alone unless the bed rails are raised to their full upright position. When the case was appealed, the court of appeals wrote the following ruling; CCA lawsuit against a hospital for negligence does not necessarily have to involve medical malpractice committed by a physician. A hospital's nurses have their own independent legal duties in assessing and caring for their patients. A hospital is not relieved of its own legal liability for negligence just be cause the hospital's staff nurses followed the physician's orders. That is, a tal's nursing staff cannot necessarily rely on a physician's standing orders patient to be up and out of bed and leave the bed rails down. A patient freshly out of surgery who is taking pain and sedate tions must be evaluated continually by the staff. The patient's present and mental state is all that matters. The nurses may have to istega cian's standing orders and instead follow the hospital's policies and for a restraint in the form of raised bed rails when necessary to insur patient's safety id sedative medica s present physica o disregard the phys cies and procedures ssary to insure the

Answer 1

1) Yes,I agree with jury decision against the nurse because due to her negligence a patient who is newly out of surgery fell down and got injured.

2) Yes nurses have legal and ethical obligations to follow physicians orders.But in some conditions such as administrating medication-nurse has right to question if medication is wrong and mostly nurse are obligated to patients care so if the orders compromises the care of the patient then they have ability to ignore the order of physicians.

3)Always negligence is not only committed by physicians but also nurses have their own independent legal duties so this also effects the hospital because negligence is because the nurse followed the orders of physician.

So hospital held liable for nurses actions.

4) The nurse should have kept the bell near the patient so he can call help when needed instead of doing on his own.

The nurse should have asked if he is in need of anything before going.

The nurse should have kept the patients belonging near him.