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The Hacienda HealthCare sexual abuse case was a high-profile sexual abuse case involving an incapacitated disabled woman who was raped many times and impregnated by a licensed practical nurse at the Hacienda HealthCare facility in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Although the investigation took place in 2021, the sexual abuse was long term, and ...
Robin Begley of the American Hospital Association said the case was likely to have a "chilling effect on the culture of safety in health care." [15] The American Nurses Association, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses, and the National Medical Association all expressed concern that Vaught's prosecution set a "dangerous precedent." [2]
Eunice Verdell Rivers Laurie (1899–1986) was an African American nurse who worked in the state of Alabama.She is known for her work as one of the nurses of the U.S. Public Health Service Syphilis Study in Macon County from 1932 to 1972 which was "arguably the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history."
For the second time this year, a large Twin Cities nursing home with a troubling health and safety record has been ordered to pay more than $1 million in damages for failing to protect residents ...
Parents receive permission to remove the life support from a woman in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years. June Hartley: United States California: 2009 A woman euthanizes her brother after he has medical problems. Jack Kevorkian: United States Michigan 1994 A medical doctor advocates for assisted suicide and the right to die. Robert ...
The Winkler County nurse whistleblower case was a series of legal proceedings in West Texas concerning the retaliation against two nurses who submitted an anonymous state medical board complaint against a physician in 2009. The case attracted national attention for its implications on whistleblowing by nurses.
Covid-19 is once again on the rise, largely as a result of the highly transmissible BA.5 subvariant. And as the virus ravages America’s health care system, it is illuminating the country’s ...
For example, Isabel Hampton Robb (1860–1910), as director of the new Johns Hopkins Hospital Training School for Nurses, deliberately set out to use advanced training to upgrade the social status of nursing to a middle class career, instead of a low pay, low status, long hours, and heavy work job for working-class women.