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The Rise of Malpractice Claims Against NPs

Daily Nurse

Why have malpractice claims – in terms of the amount of money awarded – been increasing? What can NPs do to protect themselves from malpractice claims? Document your patient care assessments, observations, communications, and actions in an objective, timely, accurate, complete, and appropriate manner. Please explain.

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What Nurses Need to Know About Metadata, Documentation, and Legal Liability

American Nurse

What nurses need to know about metadata, documentation, and legal liability Metadata analysis of information in a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) has the potential to provide valuable information to attorneys in the case of a lawsuit. Avoid documentation gaps. Don’t copy and paste text from one patient’s EHR to another.

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What Nurses Need to Know About Metadata, Documentation, and Legal Liability

American Nurse

What nurses need to know about metadata, documentation, and legal liability Metadata analysis of information in a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) has the potential to provide valuable information to attorneys in the case of a lawsuit. Avoid documentation gaps. Don’t copy and paste text from one patient’s EHR to another.

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What Nurses Need to Know About Metadata, Documentation, and Legal Liability

American Nurse

What nurses need to know about metadata, documentation, and legal liability Metadata analysis of information in a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) has the potential to provide valuable information to attorneys in the case of a lawsuit. Avoid documentation gaps. Don’t copy and paste text from one patient’s EHR to another.

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What Nurses Need to Know About Metadata, Documentation, and Legal Liability

American Nurse

What nurses need to know about metadata, documentation, and legal liability Metadata analysis of information in a patient’s electronic health record (EHR) has the potential to provide valuable information to attorneys in the case of a lawsuit. Avoid documentation gaps. Don’t copy and paste text from one patient’s EHR to another.

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Business Structures: What You Must Know…

Nurse Practitioners in Business

However, compared to the general partnership, the LLP offers liability protection for all partners, meaning that individual partners are not personally liable for the malpractice or negligence of other partners. Please verify the information in the document before making decisions based on it.

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5 Risk Control Considerations as Nurse Practitioners’ Scope of Practice Expands

Minority Nurse

Courts increasingly recognize NPs as independent providers, which affects how liability is assigned in medical malpractice cases. The report also found that the distribution of malpractice claims against NPs involving diagnosis-related allegations rose from 32.8% of claims in 2017 to 37.1% to 35.3% (CNA & NSO, 2022).