Week 9 Discussion: APRNs and Malpractice

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Completion requirements

To do: Make forum posts: 2

Value: 100 points

Due: In an effort to facilitate scholarly discourse, create your initial post by Day 3, and reply to two of your classmates by Day 7.

Grading Category: Discussions

Initial Post

Review Tables 29.1 and 29.2 in the Joel textbook (2022) and compare APRN adverse events and malpractice claims to MDs in your state of practice. Identify the differences, explain why you think there is a difference, and discuss how malpractice suits affect patient access.

Reply Posts

Reply to at least two of your classmates—from different states if possible—after reviewing the information provided in the initial post and comparing your state stats. Address some of the problems, if any, with the current malpractice legal system related to malpractice.

Please refer to the Grading Rubric for details on how this activity will be graded and incorporate these guidelines in your discussion. The grading for the number of reply posts is based on individual Discussion Board instructions. If the rubric indicates a different number for reply posts, you will not be graded down as long as you have followed the reply post instructions.

For this assignment to be considered complete, you must address all the prompts—including how malpractice suits affect patient access to care, comparing APRN to MD adverse events in your state, noting what differences there are, and discussing why there may be differences—by Day 3 and reply to two classmates, addressing some of the problems with the current malpractice legal system by Day 7.   

I live in  massachusetts

Review Tables 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, and 29.4 in the Joel text (2018) and compare APRN adverse events and malpractice claims to MDs in your state of practice. Identify the differences, why you think there is a difference, and how malpractice suits affect patient access.

Massachusetts.  

Massachusetts 1990-2014

Advance practice nurse

Malpractice payment: 167

Adverse action 33

Physician

Medical malpractice insurance: 6363

Adverse action 2550

Reference:

Average length of visits was 17.4 minutes. The median length of visits was 15.7 minutes. The median talk time by patient was 5.3 minutes, and physician, 5.2 minutes. The median time during which neither part spoke was 55 seconds.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254573/

Review Tables 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, and 29.4 in the Joel text (2018) and compare APRN adverse events and malpractice claims to MDs in your state of practice. Identify the differences, why you think there is a difference, and how malpractice suits affect patient access.

Massachusetts.  

Massachusetts 1990-2014

Advance practice nurse

Malpractice payment: 167

Adverse action 33

Physician

Medical malpractice insurance: 6363

Adverse action 2550

Reference:

Average length of visits was 17.4 minutes. The median length of visits was 15.7 minutes. The median talk time by patient was 5.3 minutes, and physician, 5.2 minutes. The median time during which neither part spoke was 55 seconds.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254573/