Professional Liability Insurance

In order to complete this assignment correctly, you should first become knowledgeable about professional liability insurance so that you may provide
additional information, dispel any myths, and be able to articulate your own position clearly and accurately.
Interview a minimum of four nurses (individually, not as a group) with whom you work or who know about professional liability insurance.
Do those you interviewed have individual policies?
None of the nurses carried individual policies.
List the reasons given for having or not having individual policies. Which reasons are listed most frequently?
Extra expense
It could cause extra problems legally
More likely to be sued
Were the reasons valid as opposed to mere guesses by the nurses you interviewed?
The nurses interviewed speculate this, never really looked into it
Do the nurses know what the hospital policy coverage provides, or if they are covered at all (especially if part time or PRN)?
The nurses interviewed figure the hospital policy coverage was adequate and would protect them.
Did the nurses indicate any change in knowledge or intent to acquire a policy after your interview/discussion?
No indication of changing or acquire additional policies
What did you learn from this assignment?
The initial posting is excellent and meets all discussion guidelines. The posting directly answers all of the questions and is thought provoking and
genuinely engages the material. Narrative word count is 300 minimum words. Excellent organization, grammar and spelling. No more than 10% of
writing is directly quoted. APA citation and references have only one to three errors. One (1) current, scholarly nursing reference plus textbook.
Required texts:
Westrick, S.J. (2014). Essentials of nursing law and ethics (2nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones and Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 978-1-284-03020-4