Nursing 1060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Practice Statement, Professional Responsibility, Multiple Choice
6 Jun 2016
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Practice guidelines are documents that help nurses understand their responsibilities and legal obligations to enable them to make safe and ethical decisions when practicing. They provide an outline of professional accountabilities and relevant legislation- college of nurses of ontario. Governed by cnao and our own practice. Given tools to make the proper decisions. What re nurses accountable for: his or her own actions and decisions, knowing and understanding the roles and responsibilities of other team members, and collaborating, consulting and taking action on client information we needed. Taking action to ensure client safety, including informing the employer of concerns related to the conduct and/or actions of other care providers: accountable if you know a nurse did something bad. If don"t know how to do something or don"t want to, say it or ask for help: don"t do something you cannot do. Legal scope of practice: defines what the public can expect of a nurse.
