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Accountability / Helen Caulfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caulfield, Helen.
- Series:
- Vital notes for nurses.
- Vital notes for nurses
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nursing--Standards--Great Britain.
- Nursing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Vital Notes on Accountability is a concise, accessible guide which provides students and newly qualified staff with an understanding of key issues in professional practice. Nurses are accountable for their own practice and require a thorough understanding of their core responsibilities which underpin everyday practice in the health service today. This introductory text in the 'Vital Notes for Nurses' series sets out a framework for accountability which consists of four 'pillars' - legal, ethical, employment and professional accountability
- Contents:
- The four pillars of accountability
- The first pillar : professional
- The second pillar : ethical
- The third pillar : law
- The fourth pillar : employment
- Structures : health service
- Structures : rights and remedies
- Concepts : negligence
- Concepts : consent
- Applications : confidentiality
- Further applications in accountability.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613404671
- 9781283404679
- 1283404672
- 9781118305966
- 1118305965
- OCLC:
- 769343009
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