Discussion Board Response 1: Ethical and Legal Implications of Nursing Negligence. Introduction As a professional nurse, your vital role in the medical industry is to act as an advocate to the patient. As a nurse, you have to check and ensure that the patient receives the right drug, the right dosage, at the right time and the patient has the right individual factors that cannot lead to harm by the drug administered. The patient and the patient’s family trusts the nurse, and in case of any harm resulting from negligence, then the trust is betrayed. Negligence has both legal and ethical implications on both the prescriber, the pharmacist, the patient and the patient’s family. Pharmacist The pharmacist has