Question

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A. Ethical and Legal Aspects 2. legal issues a. verification (e.g., patient identification, compare order to clinical indication) b. common terminology (e.g., battery, negligence, malpractice, beneficence) c. legal doctrines (e.g., respondeat superior, res ipsa loquitur)

Answer 1

Has A Ethical of legal Aspects. Ethics based where written or Ethical principles are mainly on human rights and wrongs as legal aspects includes law which are applicable Ethics is Character the study and motives of good conduct - Potter Ethical principles includes- D Right for autonomy 2) Beneficence 3 Non- maleficence 4 Justice - legal Aspects in Nursing law is a rule or a body of rules of conduct inherent in and essential to human society to guide human functions. o

Types of law in Public law Civil law Constituitional law Administrative law Criminal law Tort law Contract law . Importance of law in Nursing. It protects the patients against deliberate and inadvertent harmfull actions by a nurse 2) It saves the rights of the patient 3) It also protects the nurses also against the suits it she renders right core. legal Safegourds for Nurses. • licensure - Nurses working in , any setting should get registered to the state level or national level council. Registeration aims to protecting patients by

providing qualified nurses Standards of Care Every instituition hospital reeds to have written policies and standard protocols so that uniformity in core can be maintained and quality care Can be given to the patients, 3 Correct Identity Patient's identity should be correctly recorded and labeled and checked by 2 or more nursing personnels. Every nurse should also wear theif own identity cords, 4. Documentation keeping accurate & comprehensive records are essential in any health care facilities. All a the orders written by the physicians should be checked twice and confirmed so that essors can be prevented

35. Standing Orders- Nurses are required to execute prescribed orders in case of emergency or at the times of unavailability of doctors These orders should be clearly written and circulated B. Common Terminology. - Battery touching force is the unintentional of , or application of to the body of another person. Assault is an offer bof bodily intentional unlawful injury to another by force Malpractice. It is an act or ommission by a health care provider which deviates from accepted standards of practice and which cause injury to patient.

Negligence - usually means tailure by and nurse to take the appropriate action to protect the patient from harm eg. - Burns, falls, medication I enrors, failure to observe Beneficence It is defined as of doing well and care to others. the principle providing Berglund, 2007 C legal Doctrines » Respondeat Superior. This doctine says that a party is responsible for acts of their agents. for eg. - employer is liable for the acts of employees performed within the course of the employment Employer - Hospital Instituition Employees - Nurses medical professionals.

6 Res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself It is a doctorine that inters negligence from the nature of accident or injury in the absence of direct evidence on how any defendent behaved. eg. Nursing core by the provider was so far below the appropriate standard of core that negligence is assumed Bed sore in a patient itselt tells that patient is uently positioned,