What makes a nursing administrator an asset as an LNC?
What are the nursing administrators responsibilities?
How does the chain of command in a hospital work?
Why is it important to complete incident reports after every event and near miss?
As an LNC, you may have encountered the medical/legal issues that arise when a hospital’s chain of command or nursing administration roles aren’t clearly defined. These problems can especially affect a nurse who sees a problem with a medical or pharmaceutical order or with a patient’s condition and is unable to get anyone to address the situation.
For these and other reasons, nursing administration can be of tremendous assistance to an attorney trying to discern where a breakdown may have occurred that caused a potential malpractice issue.
Click the button below to listen as Lisa speaks with Pat Iyer on Legal Nurse Podcast. As an experienced nursing administrator and LNC, Lisa shares these and other issues that are dangerous and may lead to liability.