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.
Some folks are lucky to have never needed to contact an attorney. Other folks have had something terrible happen to them or a loved one
Patient deaths and injuries can be reduced by using standardized communication systems when patients are handed off from one provider to another.
A recent poll found nurses on top of all other professions with regard to their standards of honesty and ethics