Legal Resource for Nursing Staff

Your nurse manager has asked you to identify some key points from best practices in guarding against malpractice and to develop a small reminder resource for the staff nurses. The resource could be designed to attach to the back of a name badge or put into a small notebook that reminds them of the key steps for best practice and the standards of care for legal responsibility and malpractice.

Instructions

Create a legal resource for nursing staff that:

• Examines the definition of standards of care and scope of practice within your state.
• Determines the essential elements of nursing malpractice.
• Appraises best practices for legal compliance.
• Provides stated ideas with professional language and attribution for credible sources with correct APA citation, spelling, and grammar in the legal resource.