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A nurses begin their professional obligations, their legal responsibilities begin as well.

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LYDIA M. VENZON

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Philippine Nursing Law of 2002

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R.A. 7391

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A set of rules establised by a governing power to guide action, regulate conduct of the people and impose sanctions for violation or no compliance.

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LAW

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It commands the people to do right and prohibits them to do wrong

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LAW

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Denotes or pertains to the judicial percede t or the course or established decision of the Supreme court.

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JURISPRUDENCE

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Oral legal tradition and to function applications of law, to and in particular sets of facts and cirmunstances

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JURIS

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One behaves prudently or wisely because he has knowledge of the possible consequences of a particular action.

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PRUDENTIA

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A commission or omission of an act, pursuant to a duty, that a reasonably prudent person innthe same or similar circumstances would or would not do.

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Professional Negligence

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Acting or non acting of which is the proximate cause of injury to another person or his property

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PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE

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Failure to forsee harm to the person injured, following form ignorance of the admonition born of the provisions.

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PROFESSIONAL NEGLIGENCE

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Common act of Negligence

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BURN
OBJECT LEFT INSIDE THE BODY
FALLS OF PT
FAILURE TO OBSERVE OR TAKE ACTION AS NEED

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Applied to claims which, as matter of law, do not have to be explained beyond the obvious facts,

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DOCTRINE OF RES IPSA LOQUITUR

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English oh “DOCTRINE OF RES IPSA LOQUITUR”

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The thing speaks for itself

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Idea of improper or unskillful care of a patient by a nurse.

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MALPRACTICE

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The term of negligence or care
Essness of professional personnel

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MALPRACTICE

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No person shall be responsible for those events which cannot be foreseen, or which, though foreseen, are inevitable, except in cases expressly specified by law

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DOCTRINE OF FORSE MAJEURE

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An irresistible force
One that unforeseen or inevitable

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DOCTRINE OF FORSE MAJEURE

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Circumstances of DOCTRINE OF FORSE MAJEURE

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Floods
Fire
Earthquakes
Accident falls

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[TRUE or FALSE] habitual tardiness due to heavy traffic is not considered an excuse for force majeure

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TRUE

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Liablity is expanded to include the master as well as the employee and not a shift of liability from the subordinate of the master

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DOCTRINE OF RESPONDEANT SUPERIOR

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“Let the master answer for the acts of the subordinates”

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DOCTRINE OF RESPONDEANT SUPERIOR

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This doctrine applies only to those employees performed within the scope of his employment

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DOCTRINE OF RESPONDEANT SUPERIOR

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Lack of ability, legal qualification or fitness to discharge the required duty

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INCOMPETENCE

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Medical orders, drugs, and Medication

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R.A. 6675

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Validity registered medical, dental and veterinary practitioners . In the government, are authorized to prescribed drugs.

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R.A. 6675

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Pharmacy Act

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R.A. 5921

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All prescription must contain informations such as name of prescriber, office add, prof registration number, proff tax receipts, name of pt, age, sex and date of prescription

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R.A. 5921

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The general rule requiring a nurse to execute all lawful orders of a physician is tempered by _____

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COMMON SENSE

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Intravenous Therapy and Legal Implications

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Philippine act of 1991

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Authorize specific treatment/care and it authorizes the person administering it.

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CONSENT

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Free and rational act that presupposes knowledge of the thing to which is being guven by a person who is legally capable.

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CONSENT

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An authorization, by a patient or a person authorized by law to give the consent on the patient’s behalf, that changes touching.

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NATURE OF CONSENT

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It is esablished principle of law that every human being of adult years and siund mind has the right to determine what shall be done with his own body.

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INFORMED CONSENT

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Parents, or someone standing in their behalf gives the consent to medical or surgical treatment of a minor.

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CONSENT OF MINOR

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A mentally incompetent person cannot legally consent to medical or surgical treatment.

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CONSENT OF MENTALLY ILL

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A person who is mentally and legally competent has the right to refuse the touching of his body or to submit to a medical or surgical procedure

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REFUSAL TO CONSENT

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The termination of the ability to produce offspring

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CONSENT FOR STERILIZATION

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It is value as both scientific and legal. A record supplies rich material for medical and nursing research.

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MEDICAL RECORDS

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One important duty of the nurse is to make sure that the equipment used in procedures and treatments is not defective.

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LEGAL RISKS FOR DEFECTIVE EQUIPMENT

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Acts mag arise in the performance of her duties

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INTENTIONAL WRONGS

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A legal wrong, committed against a person or properly independent of a contract which renders the person who commits it liable for damages in a civil action

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TORTS

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Imminent threat of harmful or offensive bodily contact

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ASSULT

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An intentional, unconsented touching of another person

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BATTERY

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The unjustifiable detention of a person without a legal warrant withing boundaries fixed by a defendant by an acr or violation of duty intended to result is such confinement.

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FALSE IMPRISONMENT

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The right privacy is the right to be left alone, free from unwarranted publicity and exposure to public view.

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INVASION OF RIGHT TO PRIVACY and BREACH OF CONFIDENTIALITY

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Character assassination, be it written or spoken

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DEFAMATION

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

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SLANDER

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Defamation by written words, cartoons, or such representation that cause a person to be avoided.

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LIBEL

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An act committed or omitted in violation of the law

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CRIME

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TWO ELEMENTS OF CRIMINAL OFFENSES

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CRIMINAL ACR
EVIL/CRIMINAL INTENT

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Those who take a direct part in the execution of the act. Whi directly force or induce other to commit it.

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PRINCIPALS

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Those persons who, not being principals, cooperate in the execution of the offense by previous or simultaneous act.

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ACCOMPLIANCE

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Those who, having knowledge if the commission of the crime, either as principals or accompliances…

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ACCESSORIES

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Deals with the act or offencpses against public welfare.

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CRIMINAL ACTIONS

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A general name for a criminal offense which does not in law amount to felony

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MISDEMEANOR

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A public offense for which a convicted person is liabke to be sentenced to death or to be imprisoned in a penitentiary or prison

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FELONY

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Committed with deceit amd fault

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FELONY

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Exists when the act is performed with deliberate intent

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DECEIT

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When the wrongful acts results from imprudence, negligence, or lack of skill or foresight

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FAULT

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Criminal Negligence classified info:

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RECKLESS IMPRUDENCE
SIMPLE IMPRUDENCE

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When a person does an act or fails to do it voluntarily but without makicd, from whicb material damage results immediately

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RECKLESS IMPRUDENCE

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The person or nurse did not use precaution and the damage was not immediate or the impending danger was not evident or manifest.

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SIMPLE IMPRUDENCE

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Decree of the act of execution

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CLASSES OF FELONIES

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When all elements necessary for its execution and accomplishment are present ( Art 6, Revised Penal Code)

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CONSUMMATED

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When the offender performs all the acts or execution which will produce the felony ss s consequence,

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FRUSTRATED

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When the offender commences the commission of a felony diretly by overt acts, and does not perform all the acts of execution

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ATTEMPT

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Whose to which the law attaches the capital punishment (death) or penalties which in any their periods are afflicted (6 years and 1 day life)

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GRAVE FELONIES

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Those law punishes with penalthies which in their maximum period are correctional ( 1 month and 1 day to six years)

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LESS GRAVE

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An imprisonment from 1 month and 1 day to six years and fine 6thou not less than 200

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LESS GRAVE

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An imprisonment from 6 years and 1 day life fine not exceeding 6thou

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GRAVE FELONIES

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Those infractions of law for the commission of which the penalty of arresto menor

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LIGH FELONIES

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Imprisonment from 1 day to 30 days fine not exceeding 200

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LIGH FELONIES

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