Accountability In Nursing

- Accountability: As an endorsed enrolled nurse your accountability or responsibility for the moral and legal requirements of proper patient care is that It’s the responsibility for one's own actions; this is a principle of professional practice that is required for health care providers. An enrolled nurse accepts accountability and responsibility for own actions within enrolled nursing practice, by demonstrating and recognising their own level of competence and providing safe and practical care.
- Responsibility: As an endorsed enrolled nurse you have to recognises responsibility for ensuring that nursing care provided to individuals/groups is within own level of competence and consults with the responsible registered nurse whom delegates