Deliverable 5 – Legal Resource for Nursing Staff
Deliverable 5 – Legal Resource for Nursing Staff
Assignment Content
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Competency
Analyze legal components related to nursing practice.
Student Success Criteria
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Scenario
Your nurse manager has asked you to identify some key points from best practices in guarding against malpractice and to develop a small reminder resource for the staff nurses. The resource could be designed to attach to the back of a name badge or put into a small notebook that reminds them of the key steps for best practice and the standards of care for legal responsibility and malpractice.
Instructions
Create a legal resource for nursing staff that:
o Examines the definition of standards of care and scope of practice within your state.
o Determines the essential elements of nursing malpractice.
o Appraises best practices for legal compliance.
o Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the legal resource.
Resources
Library Databases
o Health Policy Reference Center
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