Risk of violence or practising outside your competence may be your reason – but it’s a step that can affect your NMC registration
Nurses have a duty of care to patients. But there may be circumstances where you will able to justify refusing to treat a patient. What are the grounds you would need in such cases, and what might the implications be?
Nursing Standard. 38, 7, 11-11. doi: 10.7748/ns.38.7.11.s7
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