Tag: litigation

Nurse legal literacy protects practice, empowers practitioners

Know the law. It could save your patients’ lives and your staff members’ practices. This is the advice of several medical legal experts to OR leaders to prevent lapses in patient protections that risk injury or even death. Beyond ensuring safe surgery and preventing litigation, perioperative nursing experts who advance…

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By: Carina Stanton
August 27, 2025
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Scrubs to startups: Turning caregiving expertise into entrepreneurial success

When Phyllis Quinlan, PhD, RN, NPD‑BC, founded MFW Consultants in 1994, she was already on her third career pivot. The former social‑work intern turned emergency‑trauma nurse discovered that the high-stakes of the emergency department (ED), coupled with her human‑behavior insights from sociology and psychology degrees, gave her a rare vantage point on how…

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By: Tarsilla Moura
August 27, 2025
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Consistent staff engagement helps ASCs prevent lawsuits, spot deeper issues early

Editor's Note Regular check-ins and visible leadership can help ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) head off legal trouble before it starts. That is the central message from employment attorney Salvatore Puccio on a recent episode of the Advancing Surgical Care Podcast, Ambulatory Surgery Center News July 23 reports. Puccio, a partner…

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By: Tarsilla Moura
July 30, 2025
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