Uniondale Nurse Error Lawyer

Nurses are often the healthcare professionals with the most direct patient contact. Although people make appointments with their doctors, when you are in the hospital or any medical setting, it is the nurses who provide you with one-on-one care. Consequently, if a nurse makes a mistake, you could be at risk of suffering serious health consequences.

If you believe a nursing mistake contributed to your health condition, a Uniondale nurse error lawyer at Duffy & Duffy Law could help. Our skilled medical malpractice attorneys have vast experience handling lawsuits against various negligent medical providers, including nurses.

Nursing Mistakes That Lead to Medical Malpractice Claims

Nurses have extensive patient contact and a wide range of caring duties and responsibilities. This creates different opportunities for mistakes that can harm patients.

Some of the most common medical mistakes committed by nurses are:

• Medication mistakes, such as administering the wrong drug or dosage to a patient
• Failure to adequately monitor a patient and missing signs of illness or infection that should be recognized based on nursing education, background, and training
• Using medical equipment improperly and causing unnecessary harm to a patient
• Mistakes in communicating with a patient’s care team, including failing to relay critical patient information to doctors and nurses on the next shift
• Documentation mistakes, such as failing to record observations about a patient or their medical history, including antibiotic allergies
• Not responding promptly to a patient’s request for urgent medical assistance, for example, when a patient hits the call button from their hospital bed

Our Uniondale attorneys at Duffy & Duffy Law have successfully handled a wide range of claims arising from nursing mistakes that have caused patient harm. By using our vast experience with medical records and working closely with medical experts, we can determine what went wrong and what your legal options are.

What Makes a Nursing Mistake Amount to Malpractice?

Our Uniondale attorneys understand that many different nursing mistakes can occur in hospitals, medical offices, nursing homes, and other healthcare settings. However, not all errors rise to the level of actionable medical malpractice. To pursue a claim for medical malpractice in a civil lawsuit against a nurse, you need to establish that the nurse breached the applicable standard of care and caused you harm. For the mistake to constitute malpractice, it needs to be one that a similarly qualified nurse would likely not have made in a similar situation.

Our seasoned legal team will carefully review the details of what happened to you and advise whether you have a viable medical malpractice claim against the nurse.

Contact a Uniondale Attorney About a Claim Involving a Nursing Error

Nurses are the medical providers who often have the most contact with patients. When they make a mistake in their care, patients can suffer serious adverse effects.

Speak to a Uniondale nurse error lawyer from Duffy & Duffy Law today to learn about your legal rights.