Articles from Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession (January 1, 2008)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Chemical dependency: hospital not required to accommodate restrictions re narcotics, no disability discrimination.			423
Chemotherapy: nurse ruled negligent.			223
Defamation: employee can sue over theft allegations.		Brief article	237
Disability discrimination: no duty to accommodate permanent medical restrictions.		Brief article	298
Eye surgery: ice pack, Velcro strap lead to total blindness.		Brief article	134
Fall: facility faulted, no toileting schedule.		Brief article	235
Harassment: supervisor fired, failed to investigate.		Brief article	113
Heated IV bag: surgical patient sues for burn.		Brief article	106
Identity theft: stolen personal information must have been taken from office medical chart.		Brief article	305
Labor law: employer must show a majority favor union decertification.		Brief article	242
Misconduct: caregiver fired for sleeping while on duty, medication use no defense.			484
Newsletter now online.			96
Obstetrics: court faults caregivers over inadequate history.		Brief article	285
Organ transplantation: patient rejected for psychiatric illnesses, hospital did not commit disability discrimination.		Brief article	252
Patient neglect: CMS Proposal to allow aides to resume working after one episode of neglect.		Brief article	200
Patient-controlled analgesia: jury relates patient's death to nursing negligence.			467
Pediatric care, dehydration: brain damage traced to nursing negligence.			470
Sexual harassment by a patient: nurse covered by worker's comp.		Brief article	136
Telephone advice: nurse not negligent.		Brief article	128
Transport: aspiration pneumonia caused by aide's negligence.		Brief article	208