Nurses are often the first provider seen by patients, particularly in the hospital setting. Unfortunately, nurses make mistakes that cause serious harm or death. These mistakes can include failing to properly monitor a patient post-operatively, failing to give necessary medication, failing to prevent a patient from falling, and failing to properly communicate important clinical findings to doctors and other nurses.
The "Standard of Care" is something a jury decides, including not only evidence of how doctors in Washington state actually practice, but also what experts for both sides say is the standard.
Electronic Health Records can help attorneys for an injured patient figure out what went wrong.
Often one of the complications of medical negligence is long term, or chronic, pain. Some patients we have represented suffer pain from arachnoiditis, phantom pain
