ABSTRACT
You are personally accountable for your practice. This means that you are answerable for your actions and omissions, regardless of advice or directions from another.
NMC Code of Conduct, 2008
Additionally, nurses are expected to give account for their actions to the following persons:
• Patient (those who come under the nurse’s care or in the course of employment): is aims to limit reasonable foreseeability and prevent a oodgate of spurious claims against professionals as well as ‘volunteers’ acting outside the scope of their employment should things go wrong. Where volunteers come forward, outside their work, this is clearly a dangerous area (from a litigation point of view) where there is no (employer) vicarious liability and they are not indemnied by an employer or by insurance. One example is stopping to help someone who collapses in the street.
