Ethico Legal Considerations

Question 1

It considers in a broad general manner what is good or bad, right and wrong

Answer 1

Morals

Question 2

It uses specific rules, theories, principles, and perspectives to justify a person’s action in a particular situation

Answer 2

Ethics

Question 3

The primary care provider, Responsible for obtaining informed consent for specific medical and surgical treatment

Answer 3

Physician

Question 4

Its the systematic study of right and wrong in situations that involve issues of values and morals. Formal process for making logical and consistent moral decisions

Answer 4

Ethics

Question 5

This person can obtain informed consent for procedures done in dependent interventions. Relies on orally expressed consent or implied consent for most nursing interventions

Answer 5

Nurse

Question 6

What info does the informed consent contain

Answer 6

1. purpose of treatment
2. What the client can expect to feel or experience during treatment or procedure
3. Intended Benefits of the treatment
4. Possible Risks or negative outcomes of the treatment
5. Advantage and disadvantages of possible alternatives of treatment

Question 7

Elements of Informed Consent

Answer 7

1. Completeness (Disclosure)
2. Comprehension
3. Voluntariness
   4.Competence

Question 8

Element of Informed Consent:
when patients need great deal of info to make educated decision

Answer 8

Completeness

Question 9

Element of Informed Consent:
You must tell everything that the client will consider important in making a treatment decision

Answer 9

Completeness

Question 10

Element of Informed Consent:
the patient must understand the explanation that he or she is able to describe it with their own words

Answer 10

Comprehension

Question 11

Element of Informed Consent:
Patient is able to accept and reject treatement. Not pressured or coerced to give consent. No actual or implied threat given if patient wont accept

Answer 11

Voluntariness

Question 12

Element of Informed Consent:
Patient must have the capacity to understand information to make a decision.

Answer 12

Competence

Question 13

Three groups that cant provide a consent

Answer 13

1. Minors
2. Unconscious or Injured
3. Mentally Ill

Question 14

Who can give consent for minors

Answer 14

• Usually, parents or guardians must give the
  consent
• An adult who has the mental capacity of a
  child and who has an appointed guardian
• EXCEPTION: minors who are married,
  pregnant, parents, members of the military
  or emancipated

Question 15

Who can give consent for Unconscious/Injured

Answer 15

• Consent is usually obtained from the closest
  adult relative if existing statutes permit
• In a life-threatening emergency, the law
  generally agrees that consent is implied to
  provide necessary care for the client’s
  emergency condition

Question 16

Consent of the mentally ill

Answer 16

• State mental acts or similar statutes
  generally provide definitions of mental illness
  and specify the rights of those who have
  mental illnesses under the law as well as the
  rights of the staff caring for such clients

Question 17

Nurse’s Role

Answer 17

• collaborate with primary provider
• witness patients signature in consent form
• determine elements of valid informed consent are in place
• Communicate patient’s needs to care provider
• provide feedback if the patient wishes to change her consent
• Make sure that you have patient’s informal verbal for interventions you will perform
• explains procedure of patient and gets consent before executing it
• if patient objects, discuss it further

Question 18

What to keep in mind while charting

Answer 18

• Be sure to make a record of all interaction
  with clients, as well as the patient’s refusal
  or noncompliance with treatment
• Document telephone conversations with
  physicians, including time, content of the
  conversation, and the action you took.
• Document the facts, do not editorialize (e.g.
  do not write “I could not check on the patient as often as ordered because we were
  understaffed”

Question 19

Charting should always be F.A.C.T

Answer 19

Factual
Accurate
Complete
Timely

Question 20

This report is done when
- standard care breached or unusual incident occurs
- decribes indcident in factual terms
- quotes patent or persons involved if possible
- dont speculate, draw conclusions, or place blames
- identify any witnesses to the event or equipment involved

Answer 20

Incident Report or IR

Question 21

Give examples of Patient’s right

Answer 21

Right to…..
- Appropriate Medical Care and Humane Treatment
- Informed Consent
- Privacy and Confidentiality
- Information
- Choose Health Care Provider and Facility
- Self-Determination
- Religious Belief
- Medical Records
- Leave
- Refuse Participation in Medical Research
- Corresponence and to Receive Visitors
- Express Grievances
- be Informed of His Rights and Obligations as a Patient

Question 22

Law that seeks to protect all forms of information, be it private, personal, or sensitive. It meant to cover both natural and juridical persons involved in the processing of personal information

Answer 22

DATA PRIVACY ACT - Republic Act 10173

Question 23

Any information whether recorded in a material form or not. identity of an individual is apparent or can reasonably and directly ascertained by the entity holding the information

Answer 23

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Question 24

when put together with other information would directly and certainly identify an individual

Answer 24

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Question 25

1. race, ethnic origin, marital status, age, color, and religious, philosophical or political affiliations; 2. health, education, genetic or sexual life of a person; 3. civil, criminal or administrative proceedings 4. unique identifiers issued by government agencies peculiar to an individual; 5. specifically established by law as classified

Answer 25

SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Question 26

operation or any set of operations performed upon personal information including, but not limited to, the collection, recording, organization, storage, updating or modification, retrieval, consultation, use, consolidation, blocking, erasure or destruction of data.

Answer 26

PROCESSING

Question 27

An individual whose personal information is processed

Answer 27

DATA SUBJECT

Question 28

OBLIGATIONS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION CONTROLLER

Answer 28

1. Collect information for specified and legitimate purposes 2. Collect and process personal information adequately and not excessively 3. Process personal information fairly and lawfully 4. Process accurate, relevant, and up-to-date personal information 5. Retain personal information only for as long as necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes for which the data is obtained 6. Implement reasonable and appropriate organizational, physical, and technical measures intended for the protection of personal information

Question 29

Data Privacy Principles

Answer 29

- Transparency - Legitimate Purpose - Proportionality

Question 30

Data Privacy Principles - data subject must be aware of the nature, purpose, and extent of the processing of his or her personal data, including the risks and safeguards involved

Answer 30

TRANSPARENCY

Question 31

processing of information shall be compatible with a declared and specified purpose, which must not be contrary to law, morals, or public policy

Answer 31

Legitimate purpose

Question 32

Data privacy Principles - processing of information shall be adequate, relevant, suitable, necessary, and not excessive in relation to a declared and specified purpose.

Answer 32

PROPORTIONALITY