Legal Liabilities in Nursing Pdf

Responsibility to nursing is imperative if nurses are to act as an autonomous organization. Effective assessment and communication are essential components of patient safety care. This study is designed to determine Korean nurses` attitudes toward responsibility in assessment and communication, and to examine the relationship between variables (i.e., legal awareness, attitudes toward the physician`s duty to supervise nurses). The attitude towards compulsory medical service reflects the status of nurses who depend on medical supervision. Study participants were 288 RN-BSN registered nurses in two colleges in Korea. The degree of legal knowledge was measured using a 25-item questionnaire developed by the authors. The tool for measuring attitudes towards medical surveillance of nurses is the questionnaire on attitudes towards duty and responsibility, which was modified by the authors. There was a significant correlation between attitudes toward mandatory physicians and nurses` responsibility, but not between legal awareness and attitudes toward liability. The results of this study suggest that current educational content aimed at improving nurses` attitudes towards responsibility should be realigned with attitude-based training and should include an understanding of the increased accountability that comes with greater autonomy in nursing practice.