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Topic 1: Utilizing Evidence Practice Guidelines
One of the ways that the NP can manage risk of being successfully sued for malpractice or negligence is by utilizing evidence practice guidelines. Explain how these guidelines affect the "standard of care" and discuss with your classmates how utilizing this guideline can be a major strategy to significantly reduce risk to the provider.
APA style. Include at least 3 references no older than 5 years.
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Running head: HOW THE GUIDELINES AFFECT THE STANDARD OF CARE
How the Guidelines Affect the Standard of Care
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The evidence-based practice guidelines provide a framework for decision making by the
practitioners and the patients. They assist the practitioner and the patients in making appropriate
decisions relating to a specific clinical case (Vohra, 2016). This means that the decision-making
process in clinical and medical practice is no longer guided by the practitioners' perspectives nor
the patients' preferences alone, but by guidelines that are universal and are arrived at through a
process of gathering and evaluating evidence. It, therefore, follows that the healthcare provided is
standardized within the jurisdictions where the guideline...
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