title: Negligence goes to the top.
abstract: Nurse managers aren't only responsible for their own actions and those of their nurses but also for recognizing and acting on physicians' inappropriate care. Learn from a case where nurses failed to take action throughout a patient's care--and the cost was her life.
authors.affiliation: Hart, Buckley & Wallace, PC, Dallas, Tex., USA.
authors.forename: D T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Warlick
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D032024:Personnel Delegation; D014481:United States; D014951:Wounds, Stab / Q000628:therapy