Malpractice insurance for nurses?

[Salus]

I am considering entering the nursing field and I was browsing some jobs in NYC and some stated that nursing required their own malpractice insurance.

Is this normal? I just associated malpractice with MD`s.

What does it cost and how would a new grad get it.

Thank you.

[suzanne4, RN]

There are already multiple threads on this. You can purchase insurance thru NSO (Nurses Service Organization). You can actually do it on the computer via their website. Cost is about $100 per year depending on the state where you are working...................Nurses can be sued for malpractice the same way that a physician can, you actually work under your own nursing license.

Hope that this helps..................... :balloons:

[Salus]

Thanks. I should have done done a topic search. $100 per year is pretty cheap.

Thanks again.