Clinical skills are used when doing direct care with the patient, and you are one of the most important members of the health-care-team, working with other nursing staff as well as technicians, therapists, health-care-providers, physicians, nurse practitioners, dieticians, social workers, the clergy, support staff and administration to help meet the mission of the facility whose goal is to provide the very best care possible to all patients. As a team member, you carry out duties assigned to you and you are responsible for completing assignments for specific patients in a timely manner. As part of the team it’s important to remember that ethics is often linked with legalities when determining right and lawful behavior in health care. There is a published code of ethics, which admonishes all workers to practice in an ethical manner at all times.
