Opinion ID: 1405731
Heading Depth: 4
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Nurse Mattus

Text: Nurse Mattus examined Taylor after she complained of nausea. During this examination, Taylor neither vomited nor complained of chest pain. In response, Nurse Mattus put Taylor on the morning sick call list, but refused to give her any medication to quell her nausea. Certainly Nurse Mattus should have checked Taylor's chart and ascertained whether Taylor's CHF medications had been delivered, and in response to finding that they had not been, immediately followed up with Dr. Johnson. But, her failure to do so was not a deliberate indifference to a serious medical condition, but mere negligenceTaylor neither vomited nor complained of chest pain during the visit; had she done so, our analysis might be different. But since she did not, and negligence is not actionable as a due process violation, summary judgment in favor of Nurse Mattus is appropriate. See Steele v. Choi, 82 F.3d 175, 178 (7th Cir. 1996) (courts must distinguish between deliberate indifference to serious medical needs of prisoners, on the one hand, and negligen[ce] in diagnosing or treating medical condition, on the other, and only the former violates the Eighth Amendment (citations omitted)).