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The civil tort of negligence is elaborately discussed, step-by-step, with relevant Common Law and legislation relevant to NSW. The watershed cases of Hadiza Bawa-Garba and Nurse Amaro are summarised with the ramifications for doctors and nurses.
The most common allegations related to scope of practice include failure to maintain a minimum standard of nursing practice. These cases include a breach of minimum professional standards, incompetence, and negligence.
- 2022
Mar 25, 2024 · Professional misconduct by nurses has negative outcomes not only for individuals but also for the organization. This theme includes the subthemes of normalization of misconduct, chaos in the organization, waste of the organization’s resources, and reputational damage to the organization.
Negligence, as discussed above, is failure to meet a standard level of care. It is an incorrect decision. For example, it is considered negligent if the standard of care for kidney failure is dialysis, and this is not ordered. A system error, on the other hand, is an occasional, simple human error.
- The Meaning of ‘Patient Neglect’
- Behaviours Identified in Studies of Patient Neglect
- Discrepancies in Staff and Patient Perceptions of Patient Neglect
- Causal Factors Identified as Leading to Patient Neglect
Although patient neglect is a term used by the public and media to describe poor patient care, its clinical, legal, and social meaning appears somewhat unclear. Descriptions of patient neglect in the literature review often invoked implicitly or explicitly Lachs and Pillemer’s (p.437) definition of neglect as “the failure of a designated care give...
The reviewed articles identified a wide range of behaviours associated with patient neglect. These are listed according to study in Table 1and conceptualized in terms of caring and procedure neglect. For procedure neglect, studies tended to collect data either through surveys with patients and caregivers, or through retrospective analysis of extrem...
Where possible, the reported frequency of neglectful behaviours between healthcare staff, patients, and families were compared (as reported in Table 1). Discrepancies were identified between what nurses reported about their own neglectful behaviours, their observations of other nurses, and the reports of patients and their family members. There was...
A variety of causal factors were identified by articles and reports as contributing to instances of patient neglect. None were systematically associated with poor care (so cannot be linked directly to ‘procedure’ or ‘caring’ neglect), and thus they offer fruitful avenues for future research. Consistent with the themes of ‘proximal’ and ‘distal’ cau...
- Tom W Reader, Alex Gillespie
- 2013
Sep 28, 2021 · Unprofessional conduct is a complex phenomenon that is connected to nurses’ individual and working backgrounds and has an impact on their work performance. More research is needed to identify how nursing communities can detect, manage and limit the serious effects and consequences of unprofessional conduct.
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Feb 13, 2020 · Richard Griffith, Senior Lecturer in Health Law at Swansea University, discusses the circumstances that give rise to a duty of care and the standard expected of nurses in discharging their duty.
