Nurse Abuses Patients: Firing Upheld By Court

    Abuse of patients is grounds for terminating a nurse’s employment, the court ruled in a case where a nurse was accused of verbally abusing one patient and striking another.

   The New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, however, ignored the patient’s statements and accepted testimony from two student nurses, who both witnessed the incidents and verified that patient abuse had in fact occurred. Marrello vs. Carter, 640 N.Y.S. 2d 679 (N.Y. App., 1996).