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.
Until she went into management, my wife was a Critical Care Nurse for 25 years, split more or less evenly between California and North Carolina. She’s had malpractice insurance from the day she passed her boards. She also refused bad orders fairly frequently.
No, most of them don’t. Medical malpractice insurance for doctors is big money. Probably more than most nurses make in a year. Nurses can get malpractice insurance but that’s only because they are currently not normally targeted by litigation. Once that changes, they won’t be able to afford it and no one will want to become a nurse anymore.
Yes they do
If working in a hospital setting the hospital Carrie’s an umbrella policy for nurses. Most nurses I know also carry their own private insurance
This has been true for decades
Yes nurses nationwide carry malpractice.