If You Were Injured By A Nursing Error, You May Have A Legal Claim For Compensation

Regardless of how careful and competent a physician might be, the assisting nurses may make errors that result in severe and potentially deadly effects.

Common Nursing Errors

A nurse’s performance directly impacts the outcomes of medical care, sometimes resulting in serious injuries and illnesses. Porzio Injury represents clients in nursing error lawsuits such as:

• Failure to monitor: Nurses failing to monitor their patients contributes to birth injuries, emergency room errors, surgical errors, and other problems.
• Failure to clean: In too many cases, nurses do not adequately clean surgical instruments, IVs and other equipment, leading to life-threatening infection.
• Failure to reposition:  Because a patient’s medical condition may lead to immobility, that patient’s nurses, aides, and assistants may be responsible for regularly repositioning or otherwise caring for them.  The failure to diligently care for such patients can result in the development of painful and devastating open wounds or pressure ulcers, causing infections, and requiring extensive treatment and surgery.
• Transport and assistance failure: Nurses and other hospital personnel are required to lift and transport patients and assist in other ways. When they fail to follow the proper procedure, patients fall or suffer other harm.
• Mislabeling and charting failure: Nurses must label blood samples and chart details in accordance with tight protocols. A small error or omission in this important documentation could prove catastrophic for patients.

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The above is just a small sampling of the types of nursing error claims we have handled. If you or someone you love has been harmed in any way by a nurse or other medical professional, call Porzio Injury right away at 201-429-7892 or email us to schedule a consultation.