The loneliness of the perinatal nurse in litigation.
Perinatal nurses are named in patient lawsuits more than most nurses might imagine, and perinatal nurses are especially vulnerable. In 2005, 15% of all payments in nursing cases involved perinatal nurses. This article describes what some nurses have felt when faced with litigation, and offers consideration for how nursing as a profession, and perinatal nursing as a specialty, should change its approach toward more support of nurses who find themselves in this circumstance.
McCaffrey
Mary P
MP
University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA. mmccaffrey@umm.edu
Neumann
Darlene
D
Furniss
Kathleen K
KK
Lohman
Susan L
SL
Carpenito
Patricia M
PM
Johnson
Vicki L
VL