Nurse Practitioner License Protection Case Study: Negligent Treatment and Care of an Infant, Resulting in Death

This case involves a nurse practitioner (NP) employed by a pediatric office practice who had been working as a registered nurse (RN) for seven years before becoming an NP. She had been working as an NP for 14 years at the time of the incident. The patient was a 10-month-old female who had been seen at the pediatric practice by our insured NP on at least once occasion before this office visit. On the day of the incident, the patient was brought in by her mother to be seen for what she described as a “bad cough.” The mother explained that the patient had been experiencing fever, wheezing, and coughing with congestion and phlegm in her chest and nose for the past few days. The mother said that, in the past day, these symptoms had gotten worse.

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