Nursing Medical Negligence Claim

Nursing negligence is when a nurse does not provide adequate care to you while you are a patient in a medical setting. It is medical care below a standard that any other nurse would provide in similar circumstances. 

The nursing negligence can be when the nurse makes an error taking your medical history, does not inform you of what they are doing or when injecting you with a medication. 

Any case of medical negligence may be due to the hospital being short-staffed, HSE cutbacks, or poor hospital management, but you could have a nursing compensation claim.  

Hospital negligence in Ireland should not happen, but does in many places. A recent report shows over 100,000 medical negligence claims are made against Irish hospitals annually. The most hospital negligence claims, 26,393, were made against the Ireland East hospitals, including the 11 HSE hospitals in Dublin. 

At Hughes & Associates Personal Injury Solicitors in Dublin, we can make your medical negligence claim for a nursing mistake and seek the compensation you deserve.

Common nursing negligence claims range from the nerve damage when taking bloods, to administering the incorrect medication to infection due to a failure to follow hygiene standards. 

Every medical negligence claim for below-professional standard nursing care is for the personal injury and its effects on your life today and in the future. 

Some of common claims for nursing negligence are:

A misinformation nursing negligence claim is when the nurse on duty fails to provide accurate patient information to the doctor or other nurses on the ward. 

The misinformation nursing negligence could be:

A nurse is responsible for providing a doctor or colleague with accurate information regarding your condition. 

Failure to do this could change the procedures taken in your recovery and could be medical negligence.  

A lack of hygiene nursing negligence claim is when your nurse does not follow all hygiene procedures regarding your care. They may fail to wash their hands or change PPE between patient visits. 

Negligence in hygiene by your nurse could result in:

If you have suffered due to a nurse’s lack of hygiene, you could make a medical negligence claim.  

A lack of quality care nursing negligence claim is when the nurse does not give you nursing care of an acceptable standard. 

Every nurse must focus entirely on every patient when caring for them. 

The lack of care nursing negligence can be:

If you suffer a lack of quality care when in the care of a nurse, you may have a hospital negligence compensation claim.

A failure to act nursing negligence claim is when a nurse fails to recognise or act in time to any change in a patient’s condition.   

In most hospitals, a nurse is often the one dealing with a patient and should act on any changes in their condition. 

A failure to act nursing negligence could be:

A nurse should act on all changes in a patient’s condition, and a failure to act could be medical negligence.

The incorrect use of medical equipment nursing negligence claim is when you suffer injury due to a nurse’s lack of duty of care to you when using any medical equipment.

You could suffer the injury at the time or later when the results of the medical negligence by the nurse become obvious.

Incorrect use of medical equipment may be:

If incorrect use or application of medical equipment happens to you as a patient, you may have a medical negligence claim.  

Hughes & Associates Personal Injury Solicitors in Dublin have the experience to make your nursing negligence compensation claim.

Compensation for nursing negligence is for when you suffer an injury when the nurse is taking your blood, entering your condition on the medical charts or even when moving you from one bed to another. 

The compensation is for the damages suffered today and in the future due to medical negligence. You make a nursing negligence claim for the injury caused and its effects on your life. 

There are two types of damages in a nursing negligence claim in Ireland:

A successful claim could see you receive compensation. The compensation you receive will combine the two types of damages.  

To make a medical negligence claim in Ireland, you need only make a few easy-to-follow steps, from talking to a personal injury solicitor to filing the compensation claim. 

At Hughes & Associates Personal Injury Solicitors, we want to make a medical negligence claim as easy as possible. 

You have gone through the effects of the medical negligence in your nursing care, and we can help you take the steps to a successful compensation claim. 

The steps are designed to provide an efficient and effective way to make a medical negligence compensation claim.

The nurse who provides below-acceptable levels of medical care to you is responsible for the nursing negligence claim. In most cases of nursing negligence, their employer has the responsibility and is deemed the negligent party.  

You may experience nursing negligence in the hospital clinic when they make an error with taking your blood pressure or in the A&E ward when they make an error with medical equipment, but it is the employer who may be responsible. 

The employer is responsible for hiring suitably trained staff, for providing suitable working conditions and that all staff are adequately supervised when on duty. 

The employer responsible for the nursing negligence could be:

The potential effects of nursing negligence could be you contracting an infection while in hospital or possibly being sent home from hospital when you have an illness. 

Nursing negligence could result in the patient suffering nerve damage or even needing more intensive medical care in the future. 

Some potential effects of nursing negligence:

Every type of nursing negligence can affect the patient, including making their condition worse or even delaying the diagnosis of a severe medical condition. 

Hughes & Associates Personal Injury Solicitors can examine your case and see if you have a valid medical negligence compensation claim.

Make a medical negligence claim today by contacting Hughes & Associates Personal Injury Solicitors in Dublin. 

You could have a compensation claim if you were injured by a nurse in a hospital, private clinic, or GP surgery. You could suffer an infection due to a lack of hygiene or nerve damage due to errors using a syringe and have a nursing negligence claim.  

The cost of nursing negligence can be large medical bills, the loss of income, or the need for full-time care, and you may make a medical negligence claim.

Contact Hughes & Associates Personal Injury Solicitors today for a confidential and professional service with your medical negligence compensation claim.