Consider this question: What are the ethical and legal responsibilities of the nurse who believes a home care patient needs to be cared for in a hospital or that a home care patient needs to continue to receive care and not be discharged from the service?
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Ethical and legal responsibilities of a nurse who believes a home care patient needs to be cared in hospital :
* provide quality of care and standard care.
* justice : what ever the care is provided by the nurse it must be in equality of care to the hospital care, which is provided in home it self.
* beneficence : the client may get benefited what ever the care provided by the nurse, that means recovery from the present suffering problem.
* non maleficence : it means do not harm, unnecessary tests and pain full proceedures should not be performed.
* accountability : the responsibility must be there, what ever the care providing by the nurse to the client.
* autonomy : self governance must be there, to provide quality of care.
* veracity : accuracy of care should be provide,
Some of the legal responsibilities like what ever the care providing to the client the consent must be taken from the patient and there family.
Regarding and reporting must be maintaintained to prevent legal complications.
Consider this question: What are the ethical and legal responsibilities of the nurse who believes a...
Consider this question: What are the ethical and legal responsibilities of the nurse who believes a home care patient needs to be cared for in a hospital or that a home care patient needs to continue to receive care and not be discharged from the service?
What are the ethical and legal responsibilities of the nurse who believes a home care patient needs to be cared for in a hospital or that a home care patient needs to continue to receive care and not be discharged from the service? Provide a summary of your response in an APA formatted paper.
What are the ethical and legal responsibilities of the nurse who believes a home care patient needs to be cared for in a hospital or that a home care patient needs to continue to receive care and not be discharged from the service? Provide a summary of your response in an APA formatted paper.
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