Accountability issues in an English emergency department: A nursing perspective.

Introduction: Nurses confront doubts about their accountability and how it affects their clinical practice daily in the complex environment of an emergency department. Therefore, nurses' experiences can provide vital information about the decisions and dilemmas in clinical practice that affect both healthcare professionals and patients alike.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the perceptions of nursing staff in an English emergency department in relation to their ethical, legal and professional accountability.

Ethical, legal and professional accountability in emergency nursing practice: An ethnographic observational study.

Introduction: Accountability in nursing practice is a concept that influences quality care, decision-making, safety standards and staff values. Therefore, understanding accountability and how it affects nursing practice could improve patient care and nurses' working conditions.

Aim: The aim of this study was to find factors that influenced ethical, legal and professional accountability in emergency nursing practice.

Decision-making in an emergency department: A nursing accountability model.

Introduction: Nurses who work in an emergency department regularly care for acute patients in a fast-paced environment, being at risk of suffering high levels of burnout. This situation makes them especially vulnerable to be accountable for decisions they did not have time to consider or have been pressured into.

Research Objective: The objective of this study was to find which factors influence ethical, legal and professional accountability in nursing practice in an emergency department.

The development of a clinical policy ethics assessment tool.

Introduction: Clinical policies control several aspects of clinical practice, including individual treatment and care, resource management and healthcare professionals' etiquette. This article presents Clinical Policy Ethics Assessment Tool, an ethical assessment tool for clinical policies that could be used not only by clinical ethics committees but also by policy committees or other relevant groups.

Aim: The aim of this study was to find or create a tool to identify ethical issues and/or confirm ethical validity in nursing practice policies, protocols and guidelines.