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Moreover, in cases where other members of the team do not agree with the doctor's decision to uphold therapeutic privilege, it is argued that it places this healthcare practitioner in a compromised position and ‘there is no legal and professional guidance discussing therapeutic privilege in relation to the nurse and the potential issues this ...
California has the only legislatively mandated nurse-to-patient ratios in the country. [3] In December 2020, during the fall/winter COVID-19 pandemic surge, governor Gavin Newsom gave all hospitals a temporary waiver from those mandates, which allowed hospitals, for example, to have ICU nurses care for three patients rather than two.
Plata v. Newsom, Docket No. 4:01-cv-01351-JST (), is a federal class action civil rights lawsuit alleging that the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's (CDCR) medical services are inadequate and violate the Eighth Amendment, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
The lawsuit is seeking civil penalties against the nurse, who is licensed in Stockton and New York. California nurse accused of selling opioids via social media apps to clients across the US Skip ...
California is the only state in the country to require by law specific number of nurses to patients in every hospital unit. Black, a registered nurse at the telemetry cardiac unit of the Henry ...
A crisis pregnancy center (CPC) is a type of nonprofit organization established to counsel pregnant women against having an abortion. [3] [4] [5] CPCs provide peer counseling related to abortion, pregnancy, and childbirth, and they may offer non-medical services such as financial assistance, child-rearing resources, and adoption referrals. [6]
A bipartisan coalition of NC lawmakers wants to pass provisions from the SAVE Act, which would grant nurse practitioners more independence in their practice. But there’s still some resistance.
Regents of the University of California, 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 (Cal. 1976), was a case in which the Supreme Court of California held that mental health professionals have a duty to protect individuals who are being threatened with bodily harm by a patient. The original 1974 decision mandated warning the threatened ...