Malpractice

  Multiple legal malpractice issues and violations of medical standards of care arise in the course of providing care to patients. However, nurses are trained to be patients’ advocates in every clinical scenario even in cases involving malpractice. Nurse practitioners (NPs) are prepared to provide reasonable and competent care to patients in primary, specialty, and medical care settings. Providing competent care involves the major role of NPs in ensuring patients’ safety in the course of care. The case provided involving Yolanda Pinellas is an illustration of how medical practitioners violated standards of care for a cancer patient which resulted in malpractice. The nurses failed to protect the safety of the patient by monitoring the chemotherapy pump which is an illustration of substandard care that later caused harm to the patient. The NPs are mandated to maintain standards of care stipulated in their scope of practice. In the provided case, the major violated standard of care is...