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Demetrice Lee
Lawsuit Prevention Tips
Common Issues in Lawsuits Against Healthcare Providers
- Documentation
- Reporting of incidents
- Failure to follow hospital procedures
- Failure to ensure patient's safety
- Improper treatment and performance
- Failure to monitor and to report
- Improper use of medical equiptment
- Improper disposal of hazardous material, ex. needles, gowns, and gloves.
Prevention Tips
Be conscious of actions that could result in lawsuits, and follow healthacare facilities procedures for properly disposaling and collecting blood, and other biohazardardous waste. The other main prevention tip, is to treat patients the same way your want to be treated, use the golden rule of common courtesy, when doing patient care, and you will fine that the patient day, and your's will have a great meaning.
