Title: Describe clients’ rights to be free from abuse, mistreatment, neglect, and abandonment.
Course: Practical Nursing I (14052-I) > Section: Describing Legal, Ethical, and Professional Responsibilities in Clinical Practice

Description should include

- professional methods to protect clients from abuse, mistreatment, neglect, and abandonment
- examples of abuse, mistreatment, neglect, and abandonment
- methods used to document reconciliation of abuse, mistreatment, neglect, and abandonment
- ways to avoid the need for restraints in accordance with current professional standards
- nurses’ obligations as mandatory reporters.

Process/Skill Questions:

- To whom does one report instances of abuse, mistreatment, neglect, and abandonment?
- What measures should be taken to protect the client from abuse, mistreatment, neglect, and abandonment?
- Where are instances of abuse, mistreatment, neglect, and abandonment documented?