Accountability in Nursing The main purpose of this research is to identify how accountability is a major issue within the nursing and medical care field. This paper will further evaluate how the accountability of nursing affects medical safety and health services. It will also provide an impact assessment of accountability on nursing. The first phase of the research will seek to establish the challenging aspects of professional nursing accountability such as the dilemma that nurses find themselves in when they are directed to work on areas that they are not well specialized in. The second phase involves an evaluation of the impacts of nursing accountability on patient safety and care and the consequences of accountability in nursing
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Nurses must adhere to these set guides and standards so as to attain the development of quality healthcare services. It should be noted that the professional practice of medicine is marred by various problematic technicalities. For instance, the issue of overcrowded medical spaces threatens healthcare by risking the safety of patients and by making hospitals uncomfortable places in which to work. Besides, nurses are sometimes required to work in areas that they are not specialized in. They may also be directed to take care of patients suffering from contagious diseases even in the absence of protective gear. Under such like circumstances, nurses are predisposed to occupational hazards in spite of their personal decisions. A nurse who refuses to be posted to overcrowded medical facilities or alternatively demands protective gear in order to deal with patients suffering infectious diseases risks being laid off. On the contrary, agreeing to any such arrangements is an active health risk (Staunton & Chiarella, …show more content…
The tipping point is the point past which nurses’ exercise limited control over their practice of medicine and as such, their continued practice becomes dangerous both to them and to the patients. The tipping point readjusts relative to the nursing experience. Nurses may attain tipping points due to such factors as miscommunication of assignments or from being overworked resulting in general body fatigue. In order to protect the safety of healthcare, concerned authorities must undertake medical care expansions in terms both of staffing and facilities (Harris, Nagy & Vardaxis,
Nurses must adhere to these set guides and standards so as to attain the development of quality healthcare services. It should be noted that the professional practice of medicine is marred by various problematic technicalities. For instance, the issue of overcrowded medical spaces threatens healthcare by risking the safety of patients and by making hospitals uncomfortable places in which to work. Besides, nurses are sometimes required to work in areas that they are not specialized in. They may also be directed to take care of patients suffering from contagious diseases even in the absence of protective gear. Under such like circumstances, nurses are predisposed to occupational hazards in spite of their personal decisions. A nurse who refuses to be posted to overcrowded medical facilities or alternatively demands protective gear in order to deal with patients suffering infectious diseases risks being laid off. On the contrary, agreeing to any such arrangements is an active health risk (Staunton & Chiarella, …show more content…
The tipping point is the point past which nurses’ exercise limited control over their practice of medicine and as such, their continued practice becomes dangerous both to them and to the patients. The tipping point readjusts relative to the nursing experience. Nurses may attain tipping points due to such factors as miscommunication of assignments or from being overworked resulting in general body fatigue. In order to protect the safety of healthcare, concerned authorities must undertake medical care expansions in terms both of staffing and facilities (Harris, Nagy & Vardaxis,