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Insulin Overdose: Court Uphold's Nurse's Firing

Legal Eagle Eye Newsletter for the Nursing Profession

  Quick Summary: An isolated medication error is not grounds for a nurse’s firing.

  However, according to the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, when medication errors persist after a nurse has been furnished with training materials addressing the prevention of medication errors and warned that failure to show improvement in medication administration could lead to dismissal, there are grounds for firing.