Archive for January 3rd, 2009

Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession - Combative patient: jury rules hospital staff not liable

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

The seventy-nine year-old patient was admitted to the hospital’s intensive care unit for diabetic ketoacidosis.
The next evening she removed her monitor hook-ups, got out of bed and insisted that she would be leaving. Three nurses put her back t…