What does the term `Duty of care mean`?

Answer 1

In tort law, a duty of care is a legal obligation imposed on an individual requiring that they exercise a reasonable standard of care while performing any acts that could forseeably harm others. For an action in negligence, there must be an identified duty of care in law...

Answer 2

When you have a responsibility to do something for someone else.

For example, if someone is trespassing on my land, and hurts himself in a dangerous area of my lawn that I didn't mark as dangerous, then he sues me, the legal question would be whether I have a duty of care to the tresspasser.

Answer 3

In nursing it means that ethical dilimmas are best solved by paying attention to relationships, and the narratives andor stories of the participants.
I guess it depends on what field you are going into.

Answer 4

I would assume it would be like a caregiver....