October 4, 2023 - According to the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), nurse practitioners deliver "high quality health care in more than 1 billion patient visits each year," and as of ...

A recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) triggers a question as to whether the standard of care to evaluate claims for medical malpractice should be changed. For ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

What do we mean by standards-of-care? How did these standards evolve? This article attempts to answer these questions and to look at the part played by ethical debate in the development of ...

A senior male staff nurse demonstrates the medical mannequin to a group of medical student nurses . They are all standing around the hospital bed listening to him . The standards would allow VA ...

Addressing the "standard of care" for patients brought up a recent conversation with a dentist. The dentist felt that it was acceptable to never take a patient's blood pressure before administering ...