Medical Malpractice Lab Errors The administrative mistakes may simply be that the specimen is not handled appropriately in terms of it getting to the appropriate person for analysis or the paperwork is not submitted appropriately so that the result never actually makes it back to the physician. In terms of specimens not being analyzed properly...

Nursing negligence is an aspect of medical malpractice, where a nurse fails to adhere to the appropriate standard of care and deviates or departs from that standard of care and is negligent, and that negligence, unfortunately, causes you harm. That would represent a nursing negligence case.