Finnerty v. Board of Registered Nursing

Opinion

COOPER, P. J.—

SUMMARY

Ellen Hughes Finnerty, a registered nurse, petitioned for a writ of mandate requiring the Board of Registered Nursing (Board) to set aside its decision disciplining her for gross negligence and incompetence. The Board disciplined Finnerty in connection with an incident during which Finnerty refused to comply with a resident physician’s order that a patient be intubated immediately in his room, and instead insisted on first moving (and did move) the patient to the intensive care unit, where the intubation was then performed. The trial court found the weight of the…