When simple acts may breach patients’ rights
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When simple acts may breach patients’ rights

Pavan Amara Nurse, midwife and health journalist

Advice on the law regarding practices that limit patients’ activities, including when they may unintentionally infringe on human rights

Nurses could be unwittingly breaching patients’ human rights by imposing rules on them in pressured healthcare settings, experts suggest.

Nursing Standard. 38, 10, 67-70. doi: 10.7748/ns.38.10.67.s20

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