CA · jury_instructions
CACI No. 504
Standard of Care for Nurses
[A/An] [insert type of nurse] is negligent if [he/she/ nonbinary pronoun] fails
to use the level of skill, knowledge, and care in diagnosis and treatment
that other reasonably careful [insert type of nurses] would use in similar
circumstances. This level of skill, knowledge, and care is sometimes
referred to as “the standard of care.”
[Y ou must determine the level of skill, knowledge, and care that other
reasonably careful [insert type of nurses] would use in similar
circumstances based only on the testimony of the expert witnesses
[including [name of defendant]] who have testified in this case.]
New September 2003; Revised October 2004, June 2010
Provenance
- Source
- courts.ca.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-20
- Edition
- caci-2025
- Content hash
47ea3bb958fbc47d4fb315fa958cdff458fc0a6cbeccaf2bbcd8dff0337ed359
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