While providing care to a patient, the nurse is responsible, both professionally and legally

Q: What is a nurses responsibility to a patient?

Nurses are responsible for recognizing patients symptoms, taking measures within their scope of practice to administer medications, providing other measures for symptom alleviation, and collaborating with other professionals to optimize patients comfort and families understanding and adaptation.

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What is a nurse's responsibility to a patient?
Which concept means that the nurse is responsible professionally and legally?
What is a nurse's roles and responsibilities?
What is professional accountability in nursing?

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A nurse is teaching the staff about Benner's levels of proficiency. In which order should the nurse place the levels from beginning level to ending level?
1. Expert
2. Novice
3. Proficient
4. Competent
5. Advanced beginner
a. 2, 4, 5, 1, 3
b. 2, 5, 4, 3, 1
c. 4, 2, 5, 3, 1
d. 4, 5, 2, 1, 3

B. Preventative Care
Preventive care includes immunizations, screenings, counseling, crisis prevention, and community safety legislation. Primary care is health promotion that includes prenatal and well-baby care, nutrition counseling, family planning, and exercise classes. Restorative care includes rehabilitation, sports medicine, spinal cord injury programs, and home care. Continuing care is assisted living and psychiatric care and older-adult day care.

D. Tertiary care
Hospital emergency departments, urgent care centers, critical care units, and inpatient medical-surgical units provide secondary and tertiary levels of care. Patients recovering from an acute or chronic illness or disability often require additional services (restorative care) to return to their previous level of function or reach a new level of function limited by their illness or disability. Continuing care is available within institutional settings (e.g., nursing centers or nursing homes, group homes, and retirement communities), communities (e.g., adult day care and senior centers), or the home (e.g., home care, home-delivered meals, and hospice). Preventive care is more disease oriented and focused on reducing and controlling risk factors for disease through activities such as immunization and occupational health programs.

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What is a nurse's responsibility to a patient?

Nurses are responsible for recognizing patients' symptoms, taking measures within their scope of practice to administer medications, providing other measures for symptom alleviation, and collaborating with other professionals to optimize patients' comfort and families' understanding and adaptation.

Which concept means that the nurse is responsible professionally and legally?

Accountability means that the nurse is responsible, professionally and legally, for the type and quality of nursing care provided. Autonomy is an essential element of professional nursing that involves the initiation of independent nursing interventions without medical orders.

What is a nurse's roles and responsibilities?

Registered Nurse Job Duties and Responsibilities Assessing, observing, and speaking to patients. Recording details and symptoms of patient medical history and current health. Preparing patients for exams and treatment. Administering medications and treatments, then monitoring patients for side effects and reactions.

What is professional accountability in nursing?

The American Nursing Association's Code of Ethics defines professional accountability as being “answerable to oneself and others for one's own actions.” Not only do we hold high clinical practice and ethical standards for ourselves, but we must also be willing to accept professional responsibility when or if deviations ...