kenmore kenmore:
It would be the hospital's policy and not the nurses. The hospital would be sued, not the nurse's who fall under the good samaritan act. When you are working you are being paid and are there to follow hospital policy. You also have responsibility to the clients who are in-patients. Nurses have to make sure they are covered by the employer in such cases. There is always an issue of visitors becoming ill or falling. I thinks that a code should have been called. But I don't know that hospitals policy.
The Good Samaritan Act wouldn't protect the nurses. The law states that if you
are a medical professional you are not granted the same protection that a non-medical Samaritan would have. The idea there is that if you are a professional you know what you are doing, therefore you can be sued if something goes wrong.
People can sue the hospitals AND the nurses. I am a medical professional this this is something you may need to keep in mind with our wonderful tort system.
Still when someone collapses don't act like your from N Korea. Help the guy be a human being.
Yes you are right that when you are in the health care field you do have to make sure you are covered with malpractice insurance from the employer for such cases.
You are referring to the US in Canada it does. Nurses cannot be sued
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