Posted on 09/12/2022 5:40:41 AM PDT by CodeToad
Nurses in North Carolina can now be sued for following doctors’ orders when they cause harm to the patient. On Friday, August 19, 2022, a narrowly-split North Carolina Supreme Court struck down a 90-year-old precedent that protected nurses from liability. The opinion of the three justices in favor of overturning the ruling stated that because nursing had evolved, the decision was necessary. The two dissenting justices countered that holding nurses accountable for physicians’ decisions would create “liability without causation.” How this latest ruling will affect future cases is unclear. The full legal briefing can be found here.
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Get fired or sued. Does that make sense? Does that raise the cost of health care?
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Good. stop experimental medicine.
At first glance, this looks like a great decision. It will serve as a strong precedent in any COVID-related lawsuits involving employers and government officials who followed CDC guidelines, Anthony Fauci’s stupid public statements, or any other “public health mandates” for shutdowns, vaccines, etc.
Ever heard of the expression “$hit flows downhill”. On just about any job, even in the military, it doesn’t matter what orders from above say, it’s the bottom guy on the totem pole who be held accountable if something goes wrong.
Depending upon the angle of decent the solid may be faster
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A friend who is a nurse had multiple instances of having to tell docs what they were doing was wrong. If they have the expertise, they should most definitely intervene if they know something could be harmful. And if they’re too cowardly to do that, they need to find another profession.
If nurses start getting sued like doctors I hope you will enjoy the mostly 3rd world nursing care that you will receive in future. Nurses will start quitting in droves. Nursing doesn’t pay enough for all that.
If nurses start getting sued like doctors I hope you will enjoy the mostly 3rd world nursing care that you will receive in future. Nurses will start quitting in droves. Nursing doesn’t pay enough for all that.
What the decision says is that nurses have to follow the standard of care they have a duty to follow. If they commit gross negligence, they are liable, as they should be.
Nurses are already quitting in droves.
I understand the doctor’s liability insurance was already the lion share of costs. Spreading liability certainly won’t lower the expense.
Maybe it’s like the military, you must follow all orders unless they’re unlawful orders. If you follow an unlawful order, you partake in the liability. I believe this reflects how far the medical profession has fallen away from Do No Harm. So many doctors are now part of corporate money-making schemes and antichristian globalist population control.
There will be a major shortage of Nurses in NC shortly. Suckers!
This may only be applicable to those who work as contractors anyway, and any lawsuit against a nurse working in a hospital or doctor’s office would be covered by the organization’s insurance.
Now a nurse in NC will need to get liability insurance and have a lawyer on retainer.
Has anyone checked the NC SC majority bank accounts recently?!?
Well, THIS should help our healthcare system as a whole! Which states jump on-board, next?
They shoot us all up with poison, then threaten the livelihoods of the very people that would be able to help us!
Yeah. That’ll work.
I guess now that Big Pharma has made their billions, it’s time for the Lawyers to cash in.
Ever get the feeling that Mother Government WANTS you dead and voting Socialist Democrat?
*ROLLEYES*
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It was crna not an rn. One of those practitioners with far less education than a physician acting as a practitioner not a nurse. They should be responsible for their actions. Welcome to the party.
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