NEGLIGENCE

Negligence in Nursing

Negligence in Nursing

Introduction

According to the NMC code of conduct Nurses are accountable for their actions. However more and more of our nurses are finding it increasingly difficult to live up to these standards because of unbearable workloads. This could mean that patients who cannot feed themselves are being overlooked or not getting the support that they need to eat and drink because of more pressing duties required by the nurse. Also because of the cuts in permanent staffing the NHS has to rely on agency staffing which could further have considerable implications on the continuity of care. According to Parahoo (2006, pp. 180) there has been a 50% rise in the use of agency staffing which show a clear indication that staffing levels are low. If nurses are not offering the standard of care that patients deserve, this could mean that there is a infringement on the principles of Beneficence and non-malfeasance which incorporate the ideology to maximize good and minimize harm. Though nurses are not ignorant of this short coming but believe it's a difficult dilemma. Aitamaa, et al, (2012, pp. 145) states that nurses have always argued that it is professionally and ethically difficult to decide if one patient should get much care or several patients should get some care when staffing levels are low.

Discussion

Negligence

Negligent acts that had a duty of care that he could meet with his personal abilities, and thus does not consider the expected and predicted by his personal abilities could also that this is a criminal offense such as assault is realized.

An act that is done in violation of the objective duty of care when the conscientious and thoughtful members of the relevant personnel would not carry out the social role and specific location of the perpetrator acted.

Negligence may be present even in a so-called "Took Ever debt". Who subjective and not being able to act in accordance with care, because it lacks the technical knowledge about it must, as a rule to allegations that he has yet taken a certain action, for a conscientious person would not do so.

A trainee in the care can therefore be culpable if he carried out a maintenance operation, to which he is not qualified, and it leads to an injury.

Types of Negligence

What proportion of the nurse must take the damage caused depends on the individual case. The law defines this as a limitation of liability. The errors are divided into three stages:

Ordinary negligence: The mildest stage for the caregiver is "ordinary negligence." This implies a glass of coke, which is swept up in the hustle and bustle from the table or a dent in the maintenance vehicle when parking (if it was not using the phone at the same time). If this is so is a mere distraction, mostly judges decide that the employee is not liable.

Medium negligence: Such cases can no longer be the excuse that "this can happen to anyone." It is, therefore, errors that could be avoided if the nurse had taken the ...