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The Legal Responsibilities of Nursing

Diversity Nursing

The legal aspects of Nursing are just as important as the clinical aspects to ensure you are providing safe patient care. Medical Malpractice Medical Malpractice is when a Nurse fails to provide patient care that meets the established standards of the Nursing profession, which results in patient compromise or harm.

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5 tips to improve and better utilize your home care plans [Free tip sheet]

AlayaCare

Lorraine Toderdash, Senior Product Manager at AlayaCare was invited to Home Care Pulse’s podcast, Vision: The Home Care Leaders Podcast, [ see the full episode here ] to discuss how to improve your care plans to increase engagement, accountability, and ultimately improve patient care.

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5 tips to improve and better utilize your home care plans [Free tip sheet]

AlayaCare

Lorraine Toderdash, Senior Product Manager at AlayaCare was invited to Home Care Pulse’s podcast, Vision: The Home Care Leaders Podcast, [ see full episode here ] to discuss how to improve your care plans to increase engagement, accountability, and ultimately improve patient care. A care workflow.

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The Nursing Code of Ethics: Everything You Need To Know

Nurse.com

In just 217 words, the American Nurses Association explains its guiding values for the profession, known as The Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements , a document that has existed for more over 70 years. Autonomy and informed consent to treatment. Breaches of patient confidentiality or right to privacy.

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Substance Use Disorder in Aging and Serious Illness: A Podcast with Katie Fitzgerald Jones, Jessica Merlin, Devon Check

GeriPal

And so, I kind of partner with my patients and say… First of all, I use agreements. I have to do them where I work, but I use them as an opportunity for informed consent. Katie: Because I have to, and I’ll use it for an opportunity for informed consent, and then urine drug test screen. Devon: Right.

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Advance Care Planning Discussion: Susan Hickman, Sean Morrison, Rebecca Sudore, and Bob Arnold

GeriPal

And yet, I think for everyone who’s elderly, which is anyone who’s my age or older, I would say it’s very important and ought to be part of an annual exam that we ought to be asking that, and documenting it in the chart. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that?