Legal Risks of Nurses

Legal Risks of Nurses

Legal Issues in Nursing

In the given case, nurse had the responsibility to continuously monitor the condition of Mr. Ard and inform doctors every little thing so that they can timely prescribed him. But, in the given scenario, nurse failed to perform her responsibility. The legal responsibility of the nursing can change according to the laws of each nation or, in countries with federal, local laws of each province, region or state. However, certain common parameters are part of universal standards and must be taken into account by those who practice this noble task (Arlington, 2000).

The Auxiliary is a member of the health team, which, although it receives directives from other components with different levels of academic training (registered nurses, physicians), is also responsible for the maneuvers carried out on patients. Items that may be punishable from the legal point of view are summarized in 3 situations:

1.Inability (to perform their work without adequate training)

2.Recklessness (execute actions in inappropriate circumstances)

3.Neglect: having failed to intervene when necessary (not alert other health team members in a patient with life-threatening)

The proper relationship between the auxiliary and patients, and continuous learning are the best tools to ensure both the welfare of patients and to reduce the legal risks of practice. The stage of the exercise of the nursing profession in recent years, is incorporating more and more notoriety, a new factor, which is to condition the practice daily, it is none other than the increase in demand from customers for services health, which often results in litigation against nurses by understand that the care received did not meet the expectations of quality or result in the results expected by users. Nurses, characterized as the human group within the health organization, most efforts have been made to adapt to the new care product required by the population, according to the current health system objectives, guidelines WHO, and even with the new training curriculum and objectives of the exercise of the profession nurse in daily practice incorporating current scientific principles observed between amazed and baffled as to expand its field of competence and the development of new activities independently and more scientific, involves a rise in complaints and trial processes of users, rather than the target, and his view of course, increase appreciation, consideration and recognition from the people to their professionalism and quality of service (Fuller, 2006).

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