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Ethico Legal Considerations Flashcards

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

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Morals

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

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Ethics

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

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Physician

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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

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Ethics

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

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Nurse

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What info does the informed consent contain

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  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
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Elements of Informed Consent

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  1. Completeness (Disclosure)
  2. Comprehension
  3. Voluntariness
    4.Competence
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Element of Informed Consent:
when patients need great deal of info to make educated decision

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Completeness

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

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Completeness

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

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Comprehension

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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

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Voluntariness

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

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Competence

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Three groups that cant provide a consent

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  1. Minors
  2. Unconscious or Injured
  3. Mentally Ill
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Who can give consent for minors

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  • 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
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Who can give consent for Unconscious/Injured

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  • 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
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Consent of the mentally ill

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  • 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
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Nurse’s Role

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  • 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
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What to keep in mind while charting

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  • 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”
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Charting should always be F.A.C.T

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Factual
Accurate
Complete
Timely

20
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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

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Incident Report or IR

21
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Give examples of Patient’s right

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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

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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

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DATA PRIVACY ACT - Republic Act 10173

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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

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

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

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

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  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
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SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

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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.

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PROCESSING

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An individual whose personal information is processed

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DATA SUBJECT

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OBLIGATIONS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION CONTROLLER

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  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
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Data Privacy Principles

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  • Transparency
  • Legitimate Purpose
  • Proportionality
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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

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TRANSPARENCY

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

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Legitimate purpose

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

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PROPORTIONALITY

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