This page within Virginia Tort Case Law is a compilation of cases reported by the Virginia Supreme Court and summarized by Brien Roche dealing with the topic of Nurses. For more information on nursing see the pages on Wikipedia
Nurses-Cases
1969 Whitfield v. Whittaker Mem. Hosp., 210 Va. 176, 169 S.E.2d 563.
Jury question presented as to whether nurse anesthetist was agent of surgeon, since surgeon selected anesthetic, told her when to begin and could have stopped it at any time.
1963 Hill v. Memorial Hosp., 204 Va. 501, 132 S.E.2d 411.
Plaintiff claimed negligence as to nurses for not putting guardrails on bed and thereby preventing her from falling. No showing of nurses being under duty to do so.
