Professional Licensure: Protecting Your Nursing Livelihood, Part 1.

Common misunderstandings about nursing regulation.

Legal Issues 101: Malpractice and Licensure Discipline.

This article is part of a series of articles titled "Legal Issues 101." The purpose of this series is to address common questions and misconceptions regarding the law and school health. Nurses frequently conflate malpractice or negligence with professional licensure discipline and it is important to understand the difference.

Employer Vaccine Mandates.

What nurses need to know as hospitals institute COVID-19 vaccine mandates.

Crisis Standards of Care.

Nursing considerations during states of emergency.

Immunity from Civil Liability, Part 2.

What nurses should understand in times of crisis.

Immunity from Civil Liability, Part 1.

A timely primer on what nurses should understand.

The Elements of a Nursing Malpractice Case, Part 4: Harm.

Harm must be proven to collect damages.

The Elements of a Nursing Malpractice Case, Part 3B: Causation.

The chain of causation can be broken if an independent actor intervenes between the defendant's negligence and the resulting injury.

The Elements of a Nursing Malpractice Case, Part 3A: Causation.

A plaintiff must prove not only that a provider departed from acceptable standards of practice-but that this departure caused an injury.

The Elements of a Nursing Malpractice Case, Part 2: Breach.

Nurses must show that their actions conformed with acceptable standards of practice.

The Elements of a Nursing Malpractice Case, Part 1: Duty.

Nurses have a duty of reasonable care for patients they care for-and in other circumstances, too.

Workplace Violence.

: How it affects health care, which providers are most affected, and what management and staff can do about it.

Legal Issues in Dismissing Unvaccinated Patients.

: Even small proportions of parents refusing vaccines have important consequences.

The Ethical and Legal Implications of a Nurse's Arrest in Utah.

Editor's note: On July 26, 2017, Alex Wubbels, the charge nurse on the burn unit at the University of Utah Hospital in Salt Lake City, was arrested for refusing to allow a police officer to draw blood from an unconscious patient in her care. Her arrest, during which she was forcefully placed in handcuffs and dragged out of the hospital, was documented on body camera video and drew national attention. We asked our ethical and legal contributing editors to provide some insight on the issues of this case.

Lessons Learned from Litigation: Legal and Ethical Consequences of Social Media.

Editor's note: To the surprise of many, a Canadian nurse's Facebook post complaining about the medical care a family member had received resulted in disciplinary action by the licensing board. We asked our legal and ethical contributing editors to provide some insight on the issues of this case.

Legal Considerations in Telehealth and Telemedicine.

When engaging in telemedicine, it is important for a nurse to understand legal and regulatory requirements.

Lessons Learned from Litigation: Discrimination Against Nurses.

What if a patient doesn't want to be cared for by a provider against whom the patient harbors a personal bias?

Lessons learned from litigation: the nurse's duty to protect.

Did nurses 'unreasonably ignore' a patient's risk of harm?

Professional licensure protection strategies: how to keep oneself from being investigated and protect oneself if an investigation is under way.

This is the third and final article in a three-part series on nursing boards' disciplinary actions and what nurses need to know to maintain their license in good standing. This article discusses strategies for protecting your license.

Professional licensure: investigation and disciplinary action.

This is the second article in a three-part series on nursing boards' disciplinary actions and what nurses need to know to maintain their license in good standing. This article discusses common reasons boards of nursing conduct investigations and take disciplinary action. The third and final article will discuss strategies for protecting your license.