The healthcare sector comprises many professional practitioners who work in collaboration to provide health care services to the public in that economy. Nurses belong to professional practitioners' groups that offer services such as promoting public health, preventing disease, caring for the sick, ...
The healthcare sector comprises many professional practitioners who work in
collaboration to provide health care services to the public in that economy. Nurses belong to
professional practitioners' groups that offer services such as promoting public health, preventing
disease, caring for the sick, individuals living with disabilities, and patients at the end of the life
care plan. Therefore, they perform a significant role in ensuring autonomous and collaborative
care among patients of all ages and who come from different groups, communities, and families.
Therefore, they are part of the largest group in the healthcare working settings. However, given
that they are mandated with a critical role of saving lives, they are required not to harm the
patients, a role that is constantly faced with incumbent struggles (Griffith, 2020). During such
occurrences, nurses can no longer save lives and aid in speeding patients' recovery because harm
has been caused to the patients. This is referred to as medical malpractice, which occurs when a
healthcare professional and nurses, through the act of omission, instill an injury to the patient
(Szalados, 2021). Nursing omissions oversights are malpractice that results in errors in a
patient's diagnostic results, treatment intervention, or health management. Four nursing
malpractice elements help determine the malpractice claim, including duty, breach of duty,
damages, and causation.
The first essential element of a nursing malpractice claim is the legal duty nurses hold
towards their patients. The legality of their professional duty comes to play when there is an
existing professional relationship between the healthcare provider, nurse, and the patients. From
a civilized society's point of view, an individual's legal duty as a healthcare provider is the duty
to provide reasonable care to patients (Qirjo, 2021). For instance, in the healthcare setting where
a nurse provides care to the patient, the nurse has a reasonable duty to care for the patient as a
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