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Mary is a 32-year-old G2 P2 who delivered a baby boy by repeat cesarean section at 1200. She received epidural morphine for pain management. Mary returned to the Mother-Baby unit at 1530. She had an IV of LR infusing, but the nurse discontinued it at 2000 after Mary tolerated sips of clear liquids and a regular diet at dinner. It is now 0800. When the nurse enters the room she dinds Marey unresponsive with a respiratory rate of 8.

1- Who sets the nursing standards of practice for perinatal and women's health in nursing?

2- How are these standards reflected in the hospital setting?

3- How is negligence determined?

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Though the actual question is not provided but I guess I have come accross this case earlier and also answered it. So, the relevant question for this case were -

Who sets the nursing standards of practice for perinatal and women’s health nursing?

Answer: There are some organizations that are responsible for enforcing a set of standards in the United States that ensures proper practice for perinatal and women’s health nursing. These organizations are American Nurses Association (ANA), Association of Women's Health, Obstetrical, and Neonatal Nursing (AWHONN), Association of Certified nurse midwife (ACNM) and National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN).

How are these standards reflected in the hospital setting?
What is the standard of care?

Answer: All the healthcare settings have certain set of standards and different policies that they are suppose to follow according to the stated typical procedure. According to the defined legislation, the standard of care can be defined as a pre-stated procedure of practicing medicine and treatment that every responsible nurse would follow and provide adequate care in similar situations.

How is negligence determined?

To determine negligence, a detailed comparison of provided treatment and care is being made with the standard of care. If it is found that the standard of care was not met by the respective healthcare personal and a significant harm to the patient has been resulted, then it assumed that negligence has occurred and relevant lawsuit are filed.