Protecting Your License During the Covid-19 Crisis
Unfortunately, nurses have not been extended any grace from being held accountable to the law embodied in state Nurse Practice Acts (NPA). There is some confusion about this since several states have offerred reprieve from medical malpractice claims during the Covid-19 crisis. Acts of negligence under civil law, or otherwise called medical malpractice, is not the same as acts of negligence or violations under the NPA. Nurse Practice Acts and associated rules and regulations a