Question

There are many legal and ethical requirements that an enrolled nurse must consider. Describe the following and how you would use each to review and improve your own practice?

1. Duty of care:

• Description:

• How would you use this to review and improve your own practice

Answer 1

Answer 1. Duty of care means that there is an obligation on a nurse in avoiding acts or duties on time, which could be reasonably judged to injure or harm other people. The nurse has not played his/her legal responsibility for which they being paid, resulting in some kind of loss for other people.

A nurse has many important roles at job place, which are anyhow connected to the lives of people who seek care from them. Nurse's role list is big and majorly includes:-

. To check patients when admitted and to maintain records of medical history and symptoms.

. To plan a care plan for the patients with other team members

. To keep monitoring the patient's health by timely administrating the medicines and treatments to them.

. They need to perform many diagnostic tests and to educate the patient and the family about the illness, and its treatment processes.

. The patients are totally dependant upon the nurses till they are discharged.

The duty of care is applied here if the nurse is not playing his/her part properly and has missed any of such things mentioned above. Such mistakes can lead to loss of one's life or can give them a lifelong damage.

With such obligations, as a nurse, it becomes more important for me to revive things again with more perfection. I have to be more careful and attentive towards my work, so that I can't miss any single and minor point of concern, be intentionally or unintentionally. I need to be very clear in my conscious and practice to abide by my duties.