Lawnurse

Lawnurse

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About Lawnurse

RN-BSN in 3rd year of law school. Work at a defense firm doing medical malpractice.

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  1. TV drug ad study

    lol :) The law has to try to 'accomodate' all people, including people who aren't very smart. It was only a short while into my nursing career when I realized that human beings have an infinite...
  2. Verbal Contract Valid????

    What her obligations are is the issue. If there are circumstances that void the contract, or there are circumstances under which a court is unwilling to enforce a contract, her obligations could...
  3. Verbal Contract Valid????

    "weasal out"? Her son is recovering from EYE SURGERY. I'm sure the OP would rather her son did NOT have eye surgery so that she could easily fulfill the contract...I doubt she is celebrating the eye...
  4. Verbal Contract Valid????

    I'm not saying she had no contract - exactly the opposite. Verbal contracts are nonetheless contracts. The OP is definatly bound by the contract. However, there are extenuating circumstances here, and...
  5. TV drug ad study

    And drug companies need a way to pay for it all this research. Drug companies create new drugs because they bring in money. Where else would we get new drugs if drug companies did not have an...
  6. Very angry

    It's part of the Miranda rights - the stuff they have to tell you when they get arrested and taken into custody. 1. You have the right remain silent 2. Anything you say can be held against you in...
  7. Very angry

    Criminal court. Crimes are heard in criminal court, where all defendants are entitled to a free
  8. Very angry

    Knowing there will be some false accusations, our justice system provides every defendant a FREE lawyer. As well as the right to call witnesses to back up their own story, and the right for their own...
  9. I bet the admis. office of those schools would LOVE to tell you their rank - perhaps you could call
  10. Male Nurse and OB/GYN ? Is this okay ?

    There are MANY male MDs who are OBGYNs - women docs don't dominate that specialty in medicine...should nursing be any different? IMHO, perhaps a male obgyn nurse would have a little bit of uphill...
  11. Completely innaccurate report!

    Rocknurse, you did exactly the right thing by calling the PACU nurse (in case there was some reasonable explanation) and then writing up an incident report, esp. considering she did not take the blame...
  12. Physican restraints still being used???

    What is a
  13. anything from the ombudsman?
  14. Very angry

    I have, too (not in health care - in the education system). However, our justice system is set up so that 10 guilty people would go free before 1 innocent person would be convicted. Ergo, some...
  15. Very angry

    No, catagorically wrong. Hearsay is used in law enforcement all the time. "Hearsay" is only banned in the actual court of law when it is used to prove the truth of a matter, and there are almost 30...