Types Of Torts In Nursing In Nevada
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A tort is a civil wrong; it is an action that results in personal injury, property damage, psychological injury, financial loss, or any other type of loss to another party. In Nevada, the District Court and Small Claims Court hear tort cases, depending on the amount involved.
Intentional Torts Assault. Battery is defined as the harmful touching of someone without their consent. False imprisonment is the unlawful physical restraint of a patient. Invasion of privacy which occurs with improper disclosure of medical treatment information and violations protected under HIPAA.
Negligence: The Predominant Tort in Medical Malpractice. Negligence forms the bedrock of the majority of medical malpractice cases, setting a significant legal standard for the healthcare profession.
Four of them are personal: assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and false imprisonment. The other three are trespass to chattels, trespass to property, and conversion.
Examples of intentional torts include assault, battery, false imprisonment, slander, libel, and breach of privacy or client confidentiality. Unintentional torts occur when the defendant's actions or inactions were unreasonably unsafe.
A tort is a civil wrong committed upon an individual or as typically termed in healthcare, medical malpractice which falls under the legal doctrine of negligence.
Torts fall into three general categories: Intentional torts (e.g., intentionally hitting a person); Negligent torts (e.g., causing an accident by failing to obey traffic rules); and. Strict liability torts (e.g., liability for making and selling defective products - see Products Liability).
In order to prove negligence or malpractice, the following elements must be established: Duty owed the patient; Breach of duty owed the patient; Foreseeability; Causation; Injury; and. Damages.