title: Standard of care.
abstract: Did you know that a nurse may be held to the same standard of care as a physician? In a 1989 Indiana case, Planned Parenthood of Northwest Indiana, Inc. v. Vines 543 N.E. 2d 654 (Ind. App. 3 Dist. 1989), a patient and her husband sued a clinic and a nurse for negligence in the insertion of an intrauterine device. The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a lower court's finding that the nurse-practitioner be held to the standard of care of a physician in performing this procedure.
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authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007196:Indiana; D007434:Intrauterine Devices; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009722:Nurse Practitioners / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic