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Nurses are licensed health care professionals and can be liable for medical malpractice in the same way as doctors and other health care providers. Of course, medical malpractice claims against nurses tend to fall into different categories and involve slightly different circumstances than malpractice claims against doctors.<\/p>\n

In many nursing malpractice cases, the nurse is not even the main financial defendant. If the nurse was working for a hospital or another health care facility when the negligence occurred, the employer may also be legally responsible. But the underlying question is still whether the nurse violated the applicable standard of care and whether that mistake caused an injury.<\/p>\n

This page looks at the most common types of nursing malpractice claims and where they occur. We used to focus almost entirely on hospital malpractice in nursing cases because older malpractice data was heavily weighted toward hospital claims.\u00a0 But the newer data tells a different story. Home health care, nursing homes, emergency care, and other nursing settings now account for a significant share of paid malpractice claims.<\/p>\n

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Nurses are licensed health care professionals and can be liable for medical malpractice in the same way as doctors and other health care providers. Of course, medical malpractice claims against nurses tend to fall into different categories and involve slightly different circumstances than malpractice claims against doctors. 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