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Legal and Ethical Issues
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Posted over 4 years ago In relation to legal & ethical issues, are nurses nothing more than a handmaidens of doctors with no ethical responsibility in relation to the healthcare of the patient? |
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| Posted over 4 years ago Absolutely not, nurses are part of the healthcare team and the patients advocate. |
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| Posted over 4 years ago Are you in nursing school and asking this? What the hell are they teaching you? |
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| Posted over 4 years ago As i was taught in nursing school (17 years ago), WE are responsible for our actions. If a physician gives a screwed up order and I carry it out - we are BOTH legally liable. Physicians are not our supervisors (usually). They are a separate discipline. In a hospital, my chain of command goes up to the Vice President of the Nursing Department - no physicians are involved. Generally we work WITH physicians, not for them, just like we work with PT's, OT's, and Social Workers. I hope no nursing school is giving anyone a different picture of nursing responsibility in health care today!
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