Avret v. McCormick

Undercofler, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to determine if, in a medical malpractice suit against a physician, a nurse duly graduated from schools of nursing and licensed in this state and who has drawn blood and given intravenous injections in numbers exceeding two thousand, is qualified to testify as an expert witness as to standards of care in keeping sterile a needle used to draw blood from a patient.

We find the Court of Appeals correctly held that the nurse was qualified as an expert witness for the stated purpose and that the trial court erred in excluding her…