Burks v. Christ Hospital

The Court of Appeals was in error in holding that the trial court should have sustained the defendant’s motion for a directed verdict.

According to Dr. Lloyd Lar rick, the administrator of The Christ Hospital, the hospital did not have a service operation manual for nursing personnel in May of 1960 when plaintiff’s injuries occurred.

In The Christ Hospital School of Nursing, which is a training school for nurses under the control of the same board of directors as The Christ Hospital, there was in use a “Nurses’ Procedures Manual,” which sets forth the rules that were taught to the nurses as…