Nurses in Winkler County charged with misuse of official information
Two nurses from the Winkler County Memorial Hospital have been charged with misuse of official information, a third degree felony, over an anonymous complaint they filed with the Texas Medical Board...
View ArticleFailure to advocate for a patient opens nurses up to health care liability claim
In a recent case out of the Texas 5th Court of Appeals, the court allowed a case to go forward against a nurse and the nurse’s employer, a nursing home, at least partially because the nurses involved...
View ArticleWest Texas Nurses to Face Trial
via the New York Times: It occurred to Anne Mitchell as she was writing the letter that she might lose her job, which is why she chose not to sign it. But it was beyond her conception that she would be...
View ArticleSovereign Immunity and the Winkler County nurses
In this month’s Texas Nursing Voice, the Director of Government Affairs for the Texas Nurse Association, James Willmann, gives an introduction to the concept of sovereign immunity to nurses. The basic...
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