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| Accountability | | Author(s) | Deborah Glover |
| Publisher | NT Books, London, 1999 |
| Pages | 13 pp (Nursing Times clinical monographs, no 27) |
| Source | NT Books, Emap Healthcare Ltd, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ. |
| Keywords | Nurses ; Management [care] ; Law. |
| Annotation | Nursing is a dynamic, complex and developing profession. As practitioners enhance their roles to incorporate aspects of patient care that were previously the domain of medical staff, their autonomy has necessarily increased. However, along with an increase in autonomy comes an increase in accountability. As accountable professionals, nurses must be able to explain and justify why they took the decisions they did during the course of their practice. All nurses need to know to whom they are accountable: the UKCC (United Kingdom Central Council on Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting), the public, the patient, and the employer. They also need to be aware of some of the basic issues in law that will guide their practice. A thorough knowledge of accountability and its implications for practice will ensure that nurses will continue to develop their practice in response to patient and professional need in a safe and competent way. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-991014202 B |
| Classmark | QTE: QA: VR |
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