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Finals - Ethico-Moral and Legal COnsiderations Flashcards

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Nursing practice is Guided with the following:

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• Ethical Principles
• ICN Code of Ethics
• Standards of Conduct
• Philippine Nursing Law:
Scope of Nursing
Practice
• Laws

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is defined as a situation requiring a choice between two equally desirable or undesirable alternatives.

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dilemma

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Examples of dilemmas

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• Too many patients but scarce resources (How to provide proper care)
• Don’t resuscitate
• EuthanasiaTreatment of terminally ill patient like end stage cancer, HIV etc
•Rights of psychiatry patient etc.

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Bioethical Principles

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  • Autonomy
  • Beneficence
  • Nonmalifecence
  • Justice
  • Veracity
  • FIdelity
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Rowson Ethical Framework FAIR

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  • Fairness
  • Autonomy
  • Integrity
  • Results
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  • the principle of self-rule
  • the right to participate in and decide on a course of action; freedom to act independently
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Autonomy

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  • it is to produce benefit, to do good, to always
  • act in the best interests of the patient
  • whatever is done or said must be for the patient’s good
  • includes being honest with patients, which in nearly all circumstances will be of benefit to the patients
  • patients should not be subjected to unnecessary investigations
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Beneficence

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  • is to minimize or do no harm
  • whatever is done or said must not harm the patient, physically or psychologically
  • includes being honest with patients; lying to patients or telling only part of the truth will very probably cause harm
  • for every intervention, the potential benefits must be weighed against possible adverse effects
    treatments should not be prescribed unless there is a strong chance they will help the patient and only a small chance of unpleasant
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Nonmaleficence

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  • Simply defined as “equal treatment of equal cases’’
  • Treating everyone the same.
  • is about meeting everyone’s individual needs fairly.
  • However, some people need to be treated differently if they require special care over and above what other people may need.
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Justice

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means that one’s actions are the same as your professional values.

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Integrity

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  • It is concerned with being open, honest and truthful with people
  • It is also the accurate transfer of information in a way that is suitable for the individual to understand
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Veracity

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  • Is the relationship that exists between individuals
  • is about being Faithful
  • Keeping promises
  • Always doing what is right
  • Being trust worthy
  • Confidential
  • Showing respect and dignity
  • Respecting autonomy
  • Acting in their best interest
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Fidelity

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Nurses have four fundamental responsibilities:

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  • to promote health
  • to prevent illness
  • to restore health
  • to alleviate suffering
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Nurses render health services to:

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  • the individual
  • the family
  • the community
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The ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses has four principal elements

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  1. Nurses and people:
  2. Nurses and practice
  3. Nurses and profession
  4. Nurses and co-workers
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Values of the Standard of Conduct

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  • Respect for the dignity
  • Professional accountability and responsibility
  • Quality of practice
  • Trust and confidentiality
  • Collaboration
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Philippine Nursing Act of 2002

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RA 9173

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NULL

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The Board is now composed of a chairman and 6 members instead of 4.

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is a rule or a body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding
upon human society and guide human functions.

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Law

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IMPORTANCE OF LAW IN NURSING

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• It protects the patients/clients against deliberate and inadvertent injury by a nurse.
• It protects the nurses also against the suits if she renders right care

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Types of Law

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  • Public Law
  • Civil Law
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  • the law of relationships between individuals and the government.
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Public Law

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___ law is concerned with the constitutions
and functions of the various organs of Government including local authorities, their relations with each other and citizens

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Public

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forms the basis of our legal system

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Constitutional Law

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ensures fairness in government

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Administrative Law

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catalogues forbidden the behaviours

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Criminal Law

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funds government

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Tax Law

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the law of the relations between individual citizens and their rights and responsibilities

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Civil Law

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Four of the most important types of civil law:

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  1. Contracts
  2. Property
  3. Family relations
  4. Civil wrongs causing physical injury or injury
    to property (tort).
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These types of torts are accidents that cause injury to another person or property.

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UNINTENTIONAL TORTS

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this usually means failure by the nurse to take the appropriate action to protect the patient from harm.

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NEGLIGENCE

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One shall act with justice, give every man his due, observe honesty and good faith.

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Civil Code, Article 19

33
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Those who, in the performance of their obligations through negligence cause any injury to another, are liable for damages.

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Civil Code, Article 20

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Common Acts of Negligence

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  • Burns
  • Objects left inside the patient’s body
  • Falls of elderly
  • Falls of children
  • Failure to observe and take appropriate action as needed
  • Failure to report observations to attending physicians
  • Failure to exercise the degree of diligence which the circumstances of the particular case demands
  • Mistaken identity
  • Wrong medicine, wrong concentration, wrong route, wrong dose
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an act or omission by a health care provider which deviates from accepted standards of practice in the medical community and which cause injury to the patient.

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MALPRACTICE

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Refers to a negligent act committed in the course of professional performance (1962)

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MALPRACTICE

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FOUR elements must be met to prove guilty of malpractice.

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  • DUTY
  • BREACH OF DUTY
  • INJURY (DAMAGES)
  • PROXIMATE CAUSE
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(relationship) nurse’s responsibility to provide care in an acceptable manner.

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DUTY-

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failed to provide care in acceptable manner.

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BREACH OF DUTY-

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nurses act caused harm.

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INJURY (DAMAGES)-

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reasonable cause and effect can be shown between the omission or commission and the harm.

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PROXIMATE CAUSE-

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These types of torts are deliberate actions in which the intent is cause injury to a person or property.

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INTENTIONAL TORTS

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is the imminent threat of a harmful or offensive bodily contact.

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Assault

44
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is an intentional, unconsented touching of another person.

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Battery

45
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It means that the unjustifiable detention of a person without legal warrant within boundaries fixed by the defendant by an act or violation of duty intended to result in such confinement.

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False Imprisonment or Illegal Detention.

46
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is oral defamation of a person by speaking unprivileged or false words by which his reputation is damaged.

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Slander

47
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is defamation by written words, cartoons or such representations that cause a person to be avoided, ridiculed, or held in contempt or to tend to injure him in his work

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Libel

48
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Legal Issues in the Nursing Practie Area

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  • Cobtrolled substances
  • Patient’s property
  • Caring for patients with AIDS
49
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Important Legal Safeguards

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  • Licensure
  • Standards of Care
  • Informed Consent
  • Correct Identity
  • Documentation

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