The Nurse Attorney's Role: Linking Legal Concepts to an Obstetrical Simulation

Clear communication is an integral factor in delivering safe, quality patient care. Nurses face even greater communication challenges when delivering care to non–English-speaking patients. Using the new Joint Commission Guidelines, which promote nursing care that is culturally and linguistically sensitive, nursing faculty used a high-fidelity simulation to address the legal issue of obtaining informed consent from a non–English-speaking patient. This article describes the nurse attorney's role during a high-fidelity simulation that provided BSN students an opportunity to care for a culturally diverse population.