title: Responsibility and accountability in intensive care nursing.
abstract: This article concentrates on the concepts of responsibility and accountability in intensive care nursing. The purpose is to pay attention to the two-dimensionality of the concepts: human-responsibility and task-responsibility. The character of intensive care nursing makes it necessary to consider these concepts and try to find ways to give the patients more responsibility for their own care.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Leino-Kilpi
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009732:Nursing Care; D010559:Personnel Management