Nursing the potential legal problems.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 5 Nursing the potential legal problems Hospital care is an important part of good care can correct and timely diagnosis and treatment provide important clues to the basis for lifting the patient pain, shorten the course, play a pivotal role in the prevention of complications. Nurses improve the care file accurate and timely writing, careful, meticulous, patient behavior, thoughtful, scientific and strict care is not only an inherent requirement of the nursing profession, more importantly, care should also work to strengthen awareness of the concept of legal issues. The new Penal Code provides three hundred thirty-five: responsibility of medical staff due to a serious doctor who caused death or serious harm to health of patients, and at 3 years of imprisonment or criminal detention. This requires that each clinical nurses should be familiar with national laws and regulations, not as a simple morality of care evaluate their own behavior, to know their legal rights, safeguard the dignity of the law. Clinical Nursing common legal issues are presented below potential 1, the authenticity of nursing records Complete medical record data is an important legal role in the document, documentation of clinical care is an important part of them, which includes a single temperature, single doctor’s advice, blood pressure monitoring alone, a single ECG recording, recording a single intensive care, patient admission assessment Single, nursing medical records alone (a and (second, in the event of an accident or medical malpractice errors are as original records and be judged. 1.1 Single temperature on body weight, vital signs, intake and output, urine and other records. These records are the basis for medical treatment decisions, it must be true and reliable. If patients do not want to weigh in, the nurse did not convince the patient to fill an approximate weight, in the event of heart failure patients, according to the dosage of digitalis bo