A legal nigthmarel: Denver Nurses Indicted

MCN The American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 125-129

  Kowalski, Karren ^a   Horner, Marianne D ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Foothills Nurse Midwives   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL SYPHILIS; HUMAN; INFANTICIDE; LEGAL ASPECT; MALPRACTICE; MATERNAL CARE; MEDICATION ERROR; NEWBORN; NEWBORN NURSING; NURSE; PEDIATRIC NURSING; UNITED STATES;

COLORADO; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANTICIDE; MALPRACTICE; MATERNAL-CHILD NURSING; MEDICATION ERRORS; NEONATAL NURSING; NURSES; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PENICILLIN G, BENZATHINE; PENICILLINS; SYPHILIS, CONGENITAL;

EID: 0032068129     PISSN: 0361929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005721-199805000-00004     Document Type: Article

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