Physical Exams: Legal Liability (Versus Professional Norms).

This article summarizes the facts and rulings of a relatively recent and representative federal appellate court decision concerning a parent's civil rights lawsuit in response to a school nurse's visual examination of a child's "private parts." The discussion of the court's rulings extends to a sampling of related case law and, as in a previous NASN School Nurse Zirkel article, the difference between legal and professional boundaries.