Question

1. Explain how continued weakness of the standard precautions will increase the nurse’s legal accountability.

Answer 1

Answer: The standard precautions provide Plateform to the nurses such as to provide quality care to the patients. But due to various negligence, weakness of the standard precautions leads to the nurse in to legal accountability. The medical error or negligence can causes adverse effects on the patients and hence may result in to death or severe health problems. This increases the legal case on the nurse. Hence it is important for the nurse to provide quality of care by indulging evidence based practice etc.