Question

Explain/Describe what the term standard of care means for the nurse. 150 words

Answer 1

Standard of care means actions to perform by a nurse performed by reasonable and prudent nurse in similar situation.

Nursing practice standards are descriptive statements that effect the nature of current nursing practice, current knowledge and current nursing care.

There are three standards

• Standard - 1 that is assessment in which RN collects comprehensive date of the health care consumer's health or situation.
• Standard - 2 that is diagnosis in which RN analyze the assessment data to determine the diagnosis or issue.
• Standard - 3 that is outcome identification in which RN identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or situation.

These standard of care are very important to an RN because these are the rules that they need to follow in their daily life and need to obey then as they are dealing with a person's life.