How to handle allegations of sexual impropriety

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Specializes in Healthcare risk management and liability.

When the Curtain Is Drawn: Handling Accusations of Misconduct | Medpage Today

This article is geared more towards independent providers, but there is useful information here applicable to many specialties.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.

Why??

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Specializes in Hospice.
Why??

Because both misconduct and false accusations happen.

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Specializes in ICU, LTACH, Internal Medicine.
Why??

Because it can happen. Any day. With any of us here. And just as heron said, both real misconduct and false accusations, by patients, families and our own colleagues.

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Specializes in Critical Care, Education.

This is a huge area of vulnerability for our male nurses. It's unfair and completely inequitable, but some organizations actually have 'chaperone' policies that establish rules that require a third person in the room when with a female patient any any male clinician. Usually, the policy was established as a result of legal actions by a patient claiming sexual impropriety of some sort.

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