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Patient safety is a predominant feature of quality healthcare and something that every patient has the right to expect. Nurses must consider the safety of the patient as paramount in every aspect of their role; and it is now an increasingly important topic in pre-registration nursing programmes. This book aims to provide nursing students and new nurses with a greater understanding of how to manage patient safety and risk in their own practice. The book focuses on the essentials that students and nurses need to know, and therefore provides a clear pathway through what can sometimes seem an overwhelmingly complex mass of rules, procedures and possible options.
The Nurse: Accountability and Professional Regulation
The Nurse: Accountability and Professional Regulation
NMC Standards for Pre-registration Nursing Education
This chapter will address the following competencies:
Domain 1: Professional values
- All nurses must practise with confidence according to The Code: Standards for conduct, performance and ethics for nurses and midwives (NMC, 2008), and within other recognised ethical and legal frameworks. They must be able to recognise and address ethical challenges relating to people's choices and decision making about their care and act within the law to help them and their families and carers find acceptable solutions.
Domain 3: Nursing practice and decision making
- All nurses must be able to recognise and interpret signs of normal and deteriorating mental and physical health and respond promptly to maintain or improve the ...
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