MEDICINE AND HEALTH

Nursing and its Responsibilities

Nursing and its Responsibilities

Introduction

With Medicine, accountability is an important aspect especially since handling of patients is a risk with many new nurses and staff. The Nursing and Midwifery Council holds staff personally responsible for their actions with respect to nursing duties, hence as a professional, I aim only to provide the best practices and care to patients. Respecting the patient as an individual is of the utmost importance to me as a professional nurse, as well as being well-versed in medicinal practices. As an NMC approved nursing professional, I understand that I am expected to recognize as well as respect patients and/or clients role as partners in their care. I also aim to recognize the contribution they make towards my career and the influence they have on it. I will identify as well as respect their preferences regarding their personal care accordingly and will respect these limits as I am expected to, within professional practice as well as legislation.

There are certain responsibilities allotted to professional nursing staff which will be discussed in this paper. These requirements may include aspects of the delegation of tasks to unregistered employees, or risk assessment procedures before delegating tasks. A nurse must be aware of the policies and procedures and professional conduct of employees under the NMC. Clinical activities must only be delegated once there is no doubt about the care givers skills and whether they can deliver the required procedures to patients. Contingency plans as well as consensual detail forms must always be recorded and kept in confidential care. Confidentiality issues concerning nursing are an important aspect that may lead to legal action if violated. Nurses often have to ensure that the written care plan is accessible to the caregiver and persons involved are agreeable with the care worker's line manager. Not only this, nurses must be made aware of whether the delegated caregiver has the required training to ensure that delivery of tasks is professionally done. Often the teams that a nursing professional must learn to work with include the patient and their family, informal careers, health and social care professionals in the National Health Service, as well as the voluntary sector. The nursing professional must make sure that the care staffs to whom the tasks are delegated are competent enough to undertake the activity. All Training records must be documented and signed by the delegating nurse, the care worker and their manager on the appropriate medical form. On top of all of this information, the nurse is still the one who is held accountable in accordance to the delegation of tasks as well as the monitoring, review, and update of the entire care plan. Furthermore,. Responsibility for the delegated task in the absence of trained careers is also the nurses'.

Discussion

The Law may not prescribe the suitability of tasks with respect to specific cases, but it does provide professionals with a functional regulatory framework under which they can apply principles of ...