title: The scope of professional practice from a legal perspective.
abstract: Individual nurses are professionally accountable for ensuring that no act or omission on their part is detrimental to patient safety and for recognising any limits in their individual skill and competence. Nurses need to consider these professional obligations in the context of what they can legally be required to do by their employers under their contracts of employment.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lunn
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007884:Legislation, Nursing; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D012941:Social Responsibility; D006113:United Kingdom