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Patient abuse and neglect may occur in settings such as hospitals, [4] nursing homes, [5] clinics [6] and during home-based care. [7] Health professionals who abuse patients may be deemed unfit to practice and have their medical license removed [ 8 ] : 20 as well as facing criminal charges as well as civil cases .
Sun Hudson case: United States Texas 2004 An infant is removed from life support against his mother's wishes. Baby K: United States Virginia: 1992 The mother of an anencephalic baby wishes to keep the child on life support perpetually. Jesse Koochin: United States Salt Lake City: 2004 Parents wish to keep a child on life support. Spiro ...
Palsgraf v. Long Island Rail Road Co.: Landmark case for discussion of proximate cause and its relationship with duty. Court of Appeals of New York. 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99. (1928) POKURA V. WABASH RY. CO., 292 U.S. 98 (1934) ([plaintiffs' negligence is determined by the facts and a reasonable person standard) Fletcher v.
Comparative negligence is a partial legal defence that reduces the amount of damages that a plaintiff can recover in a negligence-based claim based upon the degree to which the plaintiff's own negligence contributed to cause the injury, which progressively displaced the erstwhile traditional doctrine of contributory negligence over the ...
Pages in category "Nursing in the Philippines" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Res ipsa loquitur (Latin: "the thing speaks for itself") is a doctrine in common law and Roman-Dutch law jurisdictions under which a court can infer negligence from the very nature of an accident or injury in the absence of direct evidence on how any defendant behaved in the context of tort litigation.
The Philippine Board of Nursing is an administrative body under the Professional Regulation Commission that regulates the practice of nursing in the Philippines. Its three primary purposes are: To provide regulatory standards in the practice of Nursing by implementing the Nurse Practice Act and by lobbying to Congress any proposed amendment to ...
For example, a nursing home is responsible for death from adverse effects from a medication even if the physician who prescribed the medication also had a nondelegable duty of care. [24] Additionally, the doctrine of strict liability means that, in some cases, independent contractors are not immune from claims of negligence even if some other ...