Law and Nurse

Responsibility of appointing and assigning:

The nurse administrators have responsibility for staffing and supervising nursing units to ensure safe, effective patient care. Therefore, they have the authority to temporarily reassign a nursing employee to compensate for emergency staff shortages

Responsibility in quality control:

A nurse manager’s legal responsibility for quality control of nursing service imposes a duty to observe report and correct the incompetence of legal claim. any patient care provider: all patient care equipments are fully functional and the defective equipment le promptly repaired or replaced and getting the concerned

Responsibility for bersation and reporting:

Consequently nurses have a legal duty to observe patients frequently and report findings that have diagnostic or treatment value the patient’s physician and other members of the patient’s treatment team.

Responsibility to protect public:

The nurse has a legal duty to protect the public from injury by dangeries patients. The manager must ensure that nursing personnel failose the procedures to alert community members to the presence of a potentially dangerous patient in their midst.

Responsibility for record keeping and reporting:

Nurses have legal responsibility for accurately reporting and recording patient’s conditions, treatments and response to care. The medical record is an information source document the should be used to plan care, evaluate care, allocate cins educate persotinel, research care measure, and substantiate.

Responsibility for death and dying:

Nurses must be aware Responsibility for equipment: To protect the patients and of legal definition of death because they must document all employees from injury, a nurse manager must ensure that events that, when the patient is in their care.

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