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With the escalation of malpractice suits throughout the United States, Nurse Practitioner wanted to examine recent occurrences of nurse practitioner malpractice. In the November 2002 issue, we surveyed the malpractice terrain and discussed how U.S. courts handle lawsuits, the federal and state processes and how malpractice cases are tracked.
This article attempts to provide nurse practitioner trending data, as well as review different types of cases recently in litigation that will provide insight on mistakes made within the NP community. These cases include data from public reports of judgments. Whenever possible, we attempted to contact the attorney to get a better sense of the issues in the case. This article is not a comprehensive summary of all cases, as research constraints limit the availability of data. However, it does reflect many of the issues surrounding NP malpractice that one may inevitably see during his/her professional career.
