A Legal Nightmare ---Denver Nurses Indicted
Author(s)
Karren Kowalski, PhD, RN, FAAN
Marianne D Horner, MS, CNM
MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing
May / June 1998
Volume 23, Issue 3
CE Hours: 1.50
When does a mistake by a nurse constitute criminally negligent homicide? The authors of this article assisted defense attorneys on a recent case in Denver in which three nurses were indicted on the charge of criminally negligent homicide when a medication error resulted in the death of a healthy newborn.
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