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Negligence In Nursing Care

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If the student nurse decide to go away as Gerald has requested in respect of his autonomy she would have breached the duty of care and this would be considered as negligence. The word negligence is a tort law that regard individuals to exercise reasonable care in order to prevent harm that can be acts or omissions to any person. In order for negligence to have happened four elements must have occurred, these include duty of care that the nurses owes Gerald, breach of duty of care, harm caused by this duty of care and the result of the damage or harm that occurs (Johnstone, 2015).
Employers are also accountable for employee actions, which means they are answerable to any actions, omissions and negligence. This is called vicarious liability …show more content…

It might be possible that he has aquired a type of infection that is causing him to behave in that manner, and this will need to be resolved in time. Absence of duty of care and negligence can be charged to the health care team if they do not investigate the abrupt change in his behavour, which is causing him to be aggressive and not wanting to be washed. Negligence can be intentional and unintentional, it is viewed as a deviation from the principles of acknowledged practice (Oyebode, …show more content…

The nurses can be sued for criminal negligence, this is an omit that can cause a patient to die (Kerridge, Lowe & Stewart, 2013). In the scenario Gerald is watched as he smear his faeces across his stomach to his open wound, which means if he does not agree to get washed the wound might get infected and cause other complication and possibly death. Additionally is Gerald death happens while he is in hospital the nurses can be possibly charged with manslaughter and this can be coroners case. This is because this issue will be considered a sudden death, Gerald was reported to be recovering well and his vitals have been normal and all of a sudden he refuses care. The coroners courts investigate cases of death that are unexpected and unclear or the ones that precedes a harmful event or medical procedure (Mclean,

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