Healthcare
Nurse Liability Insurance: 7 Reasons to Get a Policy Even If Your Workplace Is Covered
Nurse liability insurance can protect you in legal proceedings initiated by a patient, a patient’s representative, or the state board of nursing. While physicians tend to bear the brunt of such lawsuits, nurses are also regularly sued. Because they provide most aspects of hands-on patient care, nurses are at risk for regulatory, civil, and criminal…
Read MoreFour Common Mistakes Lab Techs Make
Did you ever wonder who was handling the huge influx of COVID-19 diagnostic tests during the pandemic that started in Spring 2020? Professional lab technicians were already busy performing an estimated 13 billion lab tests per year for a host of other illnesses and conditions when the global pandemic began. Although typically in the background…
Read MoreUpskilling and Reskilling in Pharmacy
You might be a pharmacy technician, an assistant, or a pharmacist. Perhaps you work in a hospital or retail environment. Depending on your role and area of practice, you’ve probably already completed training and some level of education as a requirement for your job. You might even take regular continuing education courses to maintain your…
Read MoreIs Administrative Staff Covered by Medical Malpractice Insurance?
A spectrum of medical tasks can lead to negligence that causes patient harm, from a physician’s misdiagnosis to mislabeled medication. Administrative staff can even be found liable due to the diverse nature of their work. This makes malpractice insurance (also known as professional liability) a necessity for all team members, even if a patient lawsuit…
Read MoreWhat Can Happen if a Clinical Counselor Doesn’t Carry Malpractice Insurance?
Are you a clinical counselor? If so, carrying malpractice insurance is vital to protecting your career in the face of a malpractice lawsuit. According to the American Psychological Association, around 2% of counselors will face a malpractice lawsuit at some point in their careers. While this percentage may seem small, it means that there is…
Read MoreMental Health Technicians Are More Important Than Ever in 2021
Mental health professionals are working in challenging times, with greater demands for their services than ever before. Rates of diagnosed mental illnesses are on the rise, and the need for professional support to treat related disorders means those who work in this field are being stretched thin. In this framework, mental health technicians play a…
Read MoreWhy Every Counselor Should Have Malpractice Insurance (Even If You’re Just Starting Out)
With more and more people seeking treatment for mental health conditions, choosing a career in this field can be an excellent move. But a clinical counselor will face numerous difficult decisions and situations throughout their working life, so they need good malpractice insurance to protect themselves. Most mental health workers would never hurt their patients…
Read MoreAre You at Risk? Four Potential Liabilities When You’re an Uninsured Drug Counselor
Although substance abuse counseling has been a specialty for the last couple of decades, the fact of the matter is that this discipline is inexact. Because drug counseling continues to grow as a practice, it’s essential that drug counselors have professional insurance. Liability insurance will protect a counselor from potential claims made against them, which…
Read MoreNursing Board Discipline: Know the Process
What Should Nurses Know to Protect Themselves? It’s a big blow. You pour out your life to nursing, only to receive a letter in the mail from your state’s U.S. Nursing Regulatory Body: You are under investigation. Someone has filed a complaint alleging that you have violated your state’s nurse practice act. This can be…
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