PROFESSIONAL ADJUSTMENT,

LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT

AND RESEARCH (PALMER)
PROFESSIONAL
ADJUSTMENT / NURSING
RESEARCH
A. Patients Bill of Rights
Considerate &
respectful care,
irrespective of socioeconomic status.
Obtain from his
physician complete
current information
Receive from his
physician information
necessary to give
informed consent
Refuse treatment / lifegiving measures, to the
extent permitted by law
Every consideration of
his privacy concerning
his own medical care
program
Expect that all
communication and
records pertaining to his
care should be treated
as confidential
A hospital must make
reasonable response to
the request of patient
Obtain information as to
any relationship of the
hospital to other health
care
Refuse or participate in
such research projects
Expect reasonable
continuity of care
Examine and receive an
explanation of his bill
regardless of source of
payment
Know what hospital
rules and regulations
apply to his conduct

B. Nursing as a Profession
Nursing is a profession. It
possesses the following
primary characteristics:

Education
Theory
Service
Autonomy
Code of Ethics
Caring

C. Organization of the
Board of Nursing
composed of
Chairperson and six
(6) members
Shall represent the (3)
areas of nursing:
nursing education,
nursing service and
community health
nursing.
Qualifications:
Be a natural born
citizen and resident
of the Philippines
Be a member of good
standing of the
accredited
professional
organization of
nurses
Be a registered nurse
and holder of a
masters degree in
nursing, education or
other allied medical
profession
Have at least (10)
years of continuous
practice of the
profession: that the
last five (5) years
of which shall be in
the Philippines; and
Not have been
convicted of any
offense

The Board shall

supervise and regulate
the practice of the
nursing profession, and
shall have the following
powers, duties and
functions: CIMECPRP
Conduct the licensure
Issue, suspend or
revoke
Monitor and enforce
Ensure quality
Conduct hearings
Promulgate a Code of
Ethics
Recognize nursing
specialty organizations
Prescribe, adopt
issue and promulgate
guidelines, regulations,
measures and decisions

The president may

remove or suspend any
member of the Board after
having been given the
opportunity to defend
himself/herself in a proper
administrative
investigation, on the ff.
grounds:
Incompetence
Commission or
toleration of
irregularities
Dishonorable
conduct

D. Licensure Examination
In order to admitted to
the examination for
nurses, an applicant
must, at the time of filling
his/her application,
establish to the
satisfaction of the Board
that:
He/she is a citizen of
the Philippines, or a

citizen or subject of a
country
He/ she is a good moral
of character
He/she is a holder of a
Bachelors Degree in
nursing from a college
or university
An examinee must obtain
a general average of at
least seventy-five
percent (75%) with a
rating of not below a
(60%) in any subject.
Obtain of (75%) or
higher but gets below
(60%) must take the
exam again but only in
the subject or subjects
where he/she is below
(60%)
A special/temporary permit
may be issued by the
Board to the following
persons subject to the
approval of the
Commission and upon
payment of the prescribed
fees:

For gross incompetence

and serious ignorance
For malpractice or
negligence
For the use of fraud,
deceit, or false
statements
For violation in this Act
For practicing his/her
profession during
his/her suspension from
such practice

E. Nursing Education and

Practice
A member of the faculty
in a college of nursing
teaching professional
courses must:
Be a registered nurse
Have at least 1 year of
clinical practice
Be a member of good
standing in the
accredited professional
organization of nurses
Be a holder of a
masters degree
He/she must have at
least (5) years of
experience in nursing

Internationally wellknown specialists

A person occupying
On medical mission
supervisory or managerial
Exchange professors
positions requiring
knowledge of nursing must:
The board shall have the
Be a registered nurse
power to revoke or
Have at least (5)
suspend the certificate of
years of experience
registration/ professional
in general nursing
license or cancel the
Possess a degree of
special/temporary permit
BSN w/ at least (9)
of a nurse upon any of the
units in
ff. grounds:
management and
administration
Person convicted by
courses at the
final judgment of any
graduate level
criminal offense

Be a member of good
For unprofessional and
standing accredited
unethical conduct

prof. organizations of
nurses
That a person
occupying the
position of chief
nurse or director of
nursing service
shall, in addition to
the foregoing
qualifications,
possess:
(5) years of
experience in a
supervisory or
managerial
A masters degree
major in nursing

F. Laws Affecting Nursing

Profession
PD 442
PD 651
PD 825
PD 856
PD 996
EO 51
RA.
1136
RA.
3573
RA.
4073
RA.
6425
RA.
6675
RA.
7160
RA.
7170
RA.
7277
RA.
7305
RA.
9257
RA.
7600
RA.
8172

RA.
8423
RA.
8504
RA.
8976
RA.
9173
G. Inform Consent
Requisites for Validity
of Informed Consent
Written permission is best
and legally accepted
To ensure that the client
understand the nature of
the treatment
Signature is obtained with
the clients complete
understanding of what to
occur
For minors, parents, gives
their consent
For mentally ill and
unconscious patient,
consent must be taken
from the parents or legal
guardian
If the patient is unable
to write, an X is
accepted if there is a
witness to his mark
Secured without pressure
and threat
A witness is desirable
When an emergency
situations exist or no
consent is necessary

from fraud or
undue influence
and above 18 years
The patient should
write that the will was
signed by the
testator.
Advance Directive
Health care proxy
I. Negligence

J. Malpractice
K. Torts

Assault
Battery
Defamation
False
imprisonment

L. Restraints

NEGLIGENCE the
are protective
commission or
devices used to
omission of an act,
limit the physical
pursuant to a duty
activities of a
Elements of
client
Negligence:
R
E
Existence of a duty on
S
the part of the person
T
charged
R
Failure to meet the
A
standard of due care
Harm resulting from
failure to meet the
M. Crimes
standard
Conspiracy to commit a
Specific examples of
crime:
Negligence:
Principals Failure to report
Accomplice
observations
s
Failure to exercise the

Accessories
degree of diligence
Mistaken identity
Degree of the acts of
Wrong medicine
execution:
Defects in the
Consummat
equipment
H. Living Will
ed
Errors due to family
Frustrated
assistance
It is a legal
Attempted

Doctrine
of Negligence:
declaration of a
1. RES IPSA
persons
LOQUITOR
instantaneous upon
2. RESPONDEAT
death
SUPERIOR
soundness of the
3. FORCE MAJEURE
patients mind, free