Nursing Errors

While doctors are the stars of the medical world, nurses are a crucial part of our current medical system. They fill many important roles in hospitals, emergency rooms and clinics by providing care, food, medications, attention and taking notes for doctors.

Unfortunately, as nursing staffs are often understaffed, many medical providers require nurses to take on extra workloads, often resulting in serious medical errors that may injure or even kill the patients under their care. If you or a loved one has been victimized by a negligent nursing staff member, a Chicago medical malpractice attorney can help.

Nurses are some of the most busy staff members in the entire medical team. Studies show they are interrupted from their tasks an average of six times an hour. Because many medical providers understaff their nursing teams, many nurses are required to serve mandatory overtime to make up for these shortages. Research shows that nurses who work twelve hours or more are three times as likely to make a serious error. To make matters worse, many clinics and hospitals ask undertrained nursing aides to fill in on behalf of a registered nurse to provide medical treatments they are not qualified to handle. The statistics don’t lie, nursing errors do happen and the clinics and hospitals that overwork and understaff these departments are to blame. Fortunately, a Chicago medical malpractice lawyer can help you take action against the medical provider that harmed you or your loved one.

Nursing errors have increased consistently over the last decade, culminating in the death of over 2,000 patients and the injury of 10,000 more. By contacting a qualified Chicago medical malpractice attorney and filing suit against the cost-cutting medical provider that harmed your family, you can send a powerful message to all providers that these type of budget cuts put people at risk and therefore, will not be tolerated.

I have handled cases involving all variety of nursing errors, including:

If you or a loved one has been injured or killed by any of the above problems, or a similar issue, please call me today and schedule your initial consultation with a top Chicago medical malpractice lawyer.

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