ETHICO-MORAL CONSIDERATIONS Flashcards
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These are systematic guides for developing ethical behavior. They answer normative questions of what beliefs and values should be normally accepted.
Code of Ethics
A nursing instructor who composed the Nurses Code of Ethics in 1893. The one who also wrote the words that best describes the code of ethics in the oath of nurses:
“to abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous and will not take or knowingly administer any harmful drug.”
Lystra Gretter
It is known as the Philippines Nursing Law
Sec 3 RA No 877
It is the ammended code of Ethics for Nurses recomenneded and endorsed by the PNA was adopted to govern the nursing practice in the Philippines.
Sec 6 PD No 223
It implies a commitment to a life of sacrifice and genuine selflessness.
Service to others
It perform the responsibilities with the highest sense of integrity and imbued with nationalism and spiritual values.
Integrity and Objectivity
A certain level of competence is necessary, i.e knowledge, technical skills, attitudes, and experience.
Professional Competence
It maintains and support professional organization.
Solidarity and Teamwork
It is consistent with their responsibilities to society and as Filipinos contribute to the attainment of the country’s national objectives.
Social and Civic Responsibility
Professionals shall remain open to the challenges of a dynamic and interconnected world.
Global Competetiveness
All professionals shall their colleagues with respect and strive to be fair in their dealings with one another.
Equality for All Professions
It is an act providing for a more responsive nursing profession repealing for the purpose republic act no 7164 otherwise known as “The Philippine Nursing Act of 1991”
RA No 9173
It refers to the commission of omission of an act, pursuant to a duty, that a reasonably prudent person in the same or similar circumstance would or would not do, and acting or the non-acting of which is the proximate cause of injury to another person or his property.
Ex: Burns, objects left inside the patients body, falls.
Professional Negligence
It means “the thing speaks for itself”
This means that the injury could not have happened if someone was not negligent that no further proof is required.
Ex: Fracture on a newly delivered baby born by breech presentation
Res Ipsa Loquitor
It implies the idea of improper or unskillful care of a patient by a nurse.
It also denotes that stepping beyond one’s authority with serious consequences.
Example: Giving anesthesia by a nurse or prescribing medicines.
Malpractice
It is lack of ability, or legal qualifications and being unfit to discharge the required duty.
Incompetence
It means an irresistible force, one that is unforeseen or inevitable.
Ex: Circumstances such as flood, fie, earthquakes, nurses who fail to render service during these circumstances are not held negligent.
Doctrine of Force Majeure
It means “let the master answer for the acts of the subordinate”. Under this doctrine, the liability is expanded to include the master as well as the employee.
Ex: The surgeon will be held responsible in case a laparotomy pack is left in a patient’s abdomen.
Doctrine of Respondeat Superior
It is a legal wrong, commited against a person on property independent of a contract which renders the person who commits it liable for damages in a civil action.
Intentional Wrong Torts
It is imminent threat of harmful or offensive bodily contact.
Assault
It is an intentional, unconsented touching of another person.
Battery
It means unjustifiable detention of a person without a legal warrant within the boundaries fixed by the defendant by an act or violation of duty intended to result in such confinement.
False Imprisonment or Illegal Detention
The right of privacy is the right to be left alone, the right to be free from unwarranted publicity and exposure to public view.
Confidentiality
Character assasination, be it written or spoken, constitute defamation.
Defamation
