Liability of neonatal nurses: Credentialing and todayʼs legal climate

Litigation, Electronic Fetal Monitoring, and the Obstetric Nurse

“…"The standard of care is imposed by the nurse's employer, the nurse's education, professional organizations, physicians, and others" (Wiley, 1976, p. 77s). Use of testimony from expert nurses called upon to define appropriate nursing care is further recognition of nursing as a profession separate from medicine (Perez-Woods, 1987).…”