Legal aspects of nursing, element of malpractice

 

Legal aspects of nursing, element of malpractice

Two important terms used in medical field related to legal aspect are medical negligence and malpractice. Medical negligence refers to a situation where there is a commission of an act that a sensible individual would not engage in or the omission of a duty that a careful person would have fulfilled, leading to a serious injury or body harm to a patient (Phillips et al., 2004). On the other hand medical malpractice refers to a bad, wrong, or injudicious treatment given to a patient by a professional medical officer resulting to injury, unnecessary suffering, or death. This in most cases this happen due to omission of a necessary act as well as commission of an unwise or negligent act

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