Question

What can staff nurses do to protect patients from quasi-intentional torts? Does this differ from the nurse manager's role in preventing quasi-intentional torts?

Answer 1

Quasi-intentional torts:
    It is a wrongful act on speech commited by a person or against to another person..
Nurses role:
    Legal system made nurses are placed an increased risk for a lwsuit..the laws that govern the nursing profession common and statutory laws..nurses spend more time to document every steps of care provided to the patient than implementation..Due to stress and pressure nurses are tend to be liable to get respect and consent from a client before performing care and informed consent before a procedure..This type of torts are classified as negligence(unintentional),Assault or Battery(intentional) that is civil law..Than negligence assault can be defined as a attempt threat of doing something..now a days nurses are so much involved in lawsuits..giving more priority in informed consent..before doing any procedure nurses must be make sure patient having knowledge about the procedures..patient must be well known about treatment,complication and outcomes..in emergency situation for life saving treatment knowledge based practice protect nurse against assault lawsuit..witness sigh can be given by patient or their assigned proxy..Quasi-intentional tort comes under civil law..
   To protect the patient from risk always follow institutional standards of care for practice..deligate procedure should be done only by physicians..identify the patient problem and risk and care them accordingly..Maintain a safe environmentand document everything carefully..file incident reports like falls and all with appropriate personnel and departments..
   some time nurse managers be as a advocate for patient's decision on the client if it is child those who are being uninformed and their refusal to sign a consent form..Nurse can help understand the situation by doing this..the nurse assumes her role as the client's advocate and reduces their risk of any future risk and helping client to amke an informed decision about their plan of care..