Advanced Nursing Practice Toolkit

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Legal and Ethics Guidance

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  • What is Ethics?
  • What is Law?
  • Accountability
    • Accountability to the Profession
    • Fitness to practice
    • Public (owing a duty of care)
    • Accountability to the Employer
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Accountability

All nurses and midwives including advanced practitioners hold four main areas of accountability to:

  • their profession
  • their employer
  • society via the laws of the land either criminal or civil
  • the individual and public in general via their duty of care
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