A 1991 law called The Patient Self Determination Act (PSDA) requires hospitals and nursing homes to tell patients about their right to refuse medical treatment. ... The result is that the profession tends to err on the conservative side. ... Change is in the air, brought on by forces that have put pressure on members of the medical profession to ease their control on patient care and treatment decision making. ... Dramatic changes in the medical profession itself have led to a breakdown in patient trust. ... No group is more subject to the risks of litigation than the medical profess...

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It has been proven that mental stress in the workplace can have detrimental values on the quality of nursing care and patient well-­-being (Wand 2011). Nurses having extremely demanding profession need to have job control and access professional support and resources to be able to minimize the risk of mental health issues and cope with the demands (Cho et al. 2014). ... Furthermore, attending resilience training for high-­-risk profession like nursing will greatly help (Mealer et al. 2014). ...

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