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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by Jiro on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:22PM (#31185973)
>Negligence means "failure to take proper care in doing something", which is often just called an accident.

This is not true, because you're equivocating on the word "proper". An accident is failure to take proper care, where proper care means "care that follows the rules". Negligence is failure to take proper care, where "proper" means "can reasonably be expected". They are not the same thing.

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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by wonderwonder on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:27PM (#31186027)
Not really sure where you are getting those definitions from. Proper means proper. The nurse did not follow the rules. The nurse did not provide any of the care that could have been reasonably expected. Fail to see a difference, she failed both of your definitions.
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Re:Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession ... by Jiro on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:43PM (#31186187)
It is possible for there to be rules that someone cannot be reasonably expected to follow.
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