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Collaborative Care

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CMPA/CNPS Joint Statement on Liability Protection for NPs and Physicians in Collaborative Practice

Introduction New and evolving models for healthcare delivery have increased the opportunity for collaborative practice between physicians, nurse practitioners (NPs) and other healthcare providers. Collaborative practice inevitably reinforces the need for healthcare professionals to ensure they individually have adequate personal professional liability protection and that the other healthcare professionals with whom they work collaboratively are…

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Collaborative Practice: Are nurses employees or self-employed?

This document is a briefing note in response to nurses, doctors, governments and others who have questions and concerns about nurses’ professional liability protection. It addresses how and why courts currently decide medical malpractice (negligence) cases, types of liability, and types of working relationships and their impact on liability risk and protection. By understanding these…

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Lessons from the Courtroom: Collaborative Care

Lessons from the courtroom: A reminder that with collaborative care comes greater individual responsibility Two recent court decisions have focused on the important role that nurses play within a treatment team, and the corresponding responsibility that this entails. Case 11 The court had to decide whether an ER physician, a registered psychiatric nurse (“RPN”) and…

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