title: Understanding the Code: safeguarding vulnerable adults.
abstract: Under the provisions of the Nursing and Midwifery Council's revised Code (2015) , all district and community nurses have a professional duty to safeguard vulnerable adults from abuse. With adult abuse continuing to increase, all members of the district and community nursing teams are well placed to identify and take action to safeguard the vulnerable. In this article, Richard Griffith explains how the Care Act 2014 seeks to improve the safeguarding of vulnerable adults and the role of district and community nurses in that process.
authors.affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Health Law, College of Health Science, Swansea University.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Griffith
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D032781:Codes of Ethics; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D004552:Elder Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom; D035862:Vulnerable Populations
keywords: abuse; human rights; professional standards; safeguarding; vulnerable adults