A nurse failed to check on a post-operative patient, according to hospital policy, during the first four hours following admission back to the unit from the Operating Room. Which legal issue would this best exemplify?

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Negligence is the failure to exercise the care that a reasonably prudent person would exercise in the same situation. In this case, the nurse failed to check on the patient as required by hospital policy, which could have resulted in harm to the patient.

A Nurse Failed to Check on a Post-Operative Patient, According