Question

3. Patient Safety: The Ethical Imperative  by: Vicki D. Lachman

What did you learn?

Answer 1

Patient safety: The ethical imperative

It discuss about the nurses roles in ethical obligation inorder to prevent and manage different medical errors.it also discuss about the different ethical theories for justification of stance and suggestions for disclosing errors to the patients.

Strategies to comply with ethical imperative for patient safety includes the following:

A)implementing and following safe practice

B)creating a reporting system that honors nurses confidentiality.

C)disclosing the errors happened to the patient and make him/ her understand.

D)reporting incase of unethical,unlawful,incomplete acts to a appropriate person.