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Provides service to society in that special Provide nursing care through the utilization of the
field nursing process
o Therapies
Licensed in his/her country or state to
practice professional nursing o Oral
NURSING PRACTICE o Topical
Primary responsibility promotion of health and o Parenteral medications
prevention of illness
o Internal examination during labour in the
Collaborate with other health care providers absence of antenatal bleeding and delivery
o Curative o Suturing of perineal laceration
Establish linkages with community resources o Capacity and ability to work cooperatively
with others
Coordination with the health team
o Skill in decision making
Provide health education to individuals, families
and communities DEFINITION OF LICENSE
Teach, guide and supervise students in nursing A legal document given by the government that
education programs permits a person to offer to the public his or her
skills and knowledge in a particular jurisdiction
The nurse is required to maintain competence by
continual learning through continuing professional CONTRACT
education
Meeting of minds between two persons whereby
one binds himself, with respect to other, to give
something or to render some service
QUALIFICATIONS AND ABILITIES OF A
PROFESSIONAL NURSE A promise or a set of promise which the law
recognizes as a duty and when that duty is not
Professional Preparation
performed the law provides a remedy
o Have a license to practice NURSING ETHICS
o Bachelor of science degree in nursing
Ethics came from the Greek word ETHOS moral
o Be physically and mentally fit duty
Personal Qualities and Professional Standard to examine and understand moral life
Proficiencies Guides of human conduct provided by ethical
o Interest and willingness to work and learn systems
o Warm personality and concern for people How people make judgement in regard to right or
wrong
o Resourcefulness and creativity, well
balanced emotional condition Critical reflection about morality and rational
analysis about it
JOHNSTON- examination of all ethical and bio- Systematic study of human behaviour in the field
ethical issues from the prospective of nursing of life science and health care in the light of moral
theory and nursing ethics values and principles
Greek work MORALIS If the act hurts people then it is a bad act
Realm of human values, morals, customs, 3. Proportionate good to come from the choices
personal beliefs and faith 4. Propriety of actual needs over ideal or potential
Bioethics needs
Specific domain of ethics that focuses on moral 5. A desire to enlarge choices and reduce chance
issues in the field of health care 6. A courageous acceptance of the consequence of
the decision
Result of life and death dilemmas faced by health
care practitioners
DEONTOLOGICAL APPROACH OR DUTY ORIENTED Duties of nonmaleficence- avoiding or preventing
THEORY injury to others
Beneficence o To do no harm
o Promotes the doing acts of kindness and o Not assisting in or performing abortion
mercy that directly benefit the patient
o Not to assist people to commit suicide
PATIENT’s BILL OF RIGHTS
o Be involved in mercy killing
o Considerate and respectful care
JUSTICE
o Relevant, current and understandable
o The right to demand to be treated justly,
information
fairly and equally
o Make decisions regarding his care plan
NURSES’ BILL OF RIGHTS
o Have advance directive (living will)
o Registered nurses promote and restore
o Every consideration of his privacy health
o Be informed of business relationship among o Provide services that maintain respect for
the hospital educational institution human dignity
o This living will is signed by the patient o One who acts through an agent is
himself responsible
o Witnessed by two other persons who is not
designated as the person’s health care Ex. Nurse recommends patient to
representative another clinic for abortion but does
not want to perform
o Directive has force of law
o No one is obliged to betray
MORAL PRINCIPLES himself/herself
Have more good effects for more o Knowledge, technical skills, attitudes and
people than a smaller group experience
o Preservation of life, respect for human rights o A right to enforce the same must be
and promotion of healthy environment provided
o Constitution • Article 20
RESONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE o Objects left inside the patient’s body;
PRACTICE OF PROFESSIONAL NURSING sponges suction tips, loose dentures lodged
in the patient’s trachea
• Professional Negligence
o Falls of the elderly; confused, unconscious,
o Commission or omission of an act, pursuant sedated patients
to a duty
o Falls of children whose bed rails were not
Existence of a duty on the part of the pulled up and locked
person charged to use due care under
circumstances o Failure to observe and take appropriate
action
Failure to meet the standard of due
care o Failure to report observations to attending
physicians
The foresee ability of harm resulting
from failure to meet the standard o Failure to exercise the degree of diligence
which the circumstances of the particular
The fact that the breach of this case demands
standard resulted in an injury to the
plaintiff
o Mistaken identity- drug given to the wrong • Irresistible force; unforeseen or inevitable
patient
• No person shall be responsible for those events
o Wrong medicine, wrong concentration, which cannot be foreseen
wrong route, wrong dose
• Floods fire, earthquakes
o Defects in the equipment
DOCTRINE OF RESPONDEAT SUPERIOR
o Errors due to family assistance
• Let the master answer for the acts of the
o Administration of medicine without a subordinate
doctors prescritption
• The liability is expanded to include the master as
THE DOCTRINE OF RES IPSA LOQUITUR well as the employee
• Injury was of such nature that it would not INCOMPETENCE
normally occur unless there was negligent act
• Lack of ability, legal qualifications or fitness to
• Injury was caused by an agency within control of discharge the required duty
the defendant
CONSENT TO MEDICAL AND SURGICAL PROCEDURES
• Plaintiff himself did not engage in any manner
that would tend to bring about the injury • Consent
• Stepping beyond one’s authority with serious o Signed by the patient or authorized
consequences representative/legal guardian
o Established principle law that every human • Invasion of Right to Privacy and breach of
being of adult years and sound mind has the confidentiality
right to determine what shall be done with
his own body o Right to privacy is the right to be left alone
o May choose whether to be treated or not o Right to be free from unwarranted publicity
o A written consent should be signed to show o Divulge information from patient’s chart to
that the procedure is the one consented to improper sources or unauthorized person
and that the person understands the nature • Defamation
of the procedure
o Character assassination
TORTS
o Slander-oral defamation
• A legal wrong, committed against a person or
property o Libel-written words
• Battery
o Two or more persons agree to commit • A legal declaration of a person’s intentions upon
a felony death
Principals- who take a direct • Testamentary document takes effect after the
plan/part death of its maker
o Reckless imprudence- person does an • A person who dies leaving a will is said t have died
testate
act or fails to do it voluntarily but
without malice • One who dies without will is said to have died
o Simple imprudence- did not use intestate
precaution and the damage was not • Validation of the will in a court is known as
immediate or the impending danger probate
was not evident or manifest
• A will which is written, dated and signed by the
testator is called holographic will