The nurse's role in the causation of compensable injury.

Lisa M. Painter; Linda A. Dudjak; Kelley M. Kidwell; Richard L. Simmons; Richard P. Kidwell

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The nurse's role in the causation of compensable injury.

October 12, 2011

Painter LM, Dudjak LA, Kidwell KM, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2011;26(4):311-319.

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This analysis of the nurse's role in closed malpractice claims found that inaction, such as failure to rescue, accounted for a large proportion of nurses' culpability.

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