As you continue in your assigned readings this week, this about this passage:

Accountability can be seen throughout all aspects of nursing practice, such as:

• Ensuring/providing safe, quality care
• Delegation
• Following (and questioning) policy and procedures
• Practicing within the guidelines of the Nurse Practice Act
• Maintaining confidentiality
• Questioning standard of care, provider's orders
• Alignment of care to organizational practices, philosophy
• Competence in clinical skills
• Lifelong learning
• Patient advocacy

Accountability is a broad concept that is closely related to other concepts. It will be important to understand the differences between the following concepts as they are incorporated daily into safe competent nursing care.

Accountability

Responsibility

Answerability

Authority

Autonomy

Week 2 Journal Entry, please describe the 5 concepts above in your own perspective and provide an example of how you plan to incorporate each into your nursing practice.