The court found a nurse manager liable for failure to warn. Which option reflects a failure to warn scenario?
1. The nurse manager did not adequately supervise a newly hired nurse who had not practiced nursing in five years.
2. The nurse manager did not tell a potential employer that a former employee was asked to resign for incompetence.
3. The nurse manager did not advise a newly hired nurse that continuing education was an annual requirement for promotion.
4. The nurse manager did not notify the physician regarding worsening of a patient's respiratory status.
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Rationale: Failure to warn is a newer area of potential liability for nurse managers in which the manager fails to warn a potential employer of staff incompetence or impairment. If the institution has sufficient information and suspicion on which to discharge an employee or force a letter of resignation, then subsequent employers should be aware of those issues. Failure to warn does not have anything to do with supervision, promises made or not made at hire, or notification of patient status changes.
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