Scholarly Paper Negligence
Ibrar Hussain
BScN 02123020 Mental health Nursing (NUR-321)
Ms. Kauser Perveen
Dec 30, 2016
Objectives:
1. Define Negligence .
2. Discuss Significance of the Negligence .
3. Clinical scenario in the Negligence ..
4. Discuss the issue with the help of literature review.
5. Establish the relationship of mental health and illness.
6. Strategies to promote mental health of the client.
7. Conclude and summarization. Negligence are falls below the standards of law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm. A person has acted negligently if he or she has departed from the conduct expected of a reasonably prudentperson acting under similar circumstances (WHO, 2014). The
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