How nursing Quality Assurance can set the stage for liability

Abstract

With more and more hospitals putting in place quality assurance monitoring techniques in the operating room, the legal dangers of liability increases. This phenomenon comes as quite a shock to many operating room supervisors and senior management personnel. They find it difficult to believe that an administrative measure put in place to evaluate and improve the quality of patient care can exacerbate the risk of liability exposure. Despite their disbelief, the fact remains that nursing quality assurance measures used inan improper fashion can set the stage for hospital liability.