Nursing Management Flashcards by Anonymous 1

sum of rules and regulations by which society is governed

Law

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man-made and regulates social conduct in a formal and binding way

Law

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a rule of conduct pronounced by controlling authority
and which may be enforced

Law

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Sources of Law (5)

Constitution
Legislative Body
Previous Regime
Local Customs
International Law

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A law which regulated the practice of medicine, which is considered the first law that had to do with the practice of nursing.

Act No. 2493 of 1915

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This act provided for the examination and
registration of nurses in the Philippine Islands.

Act No. 2493 of 1915

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Known as the First True Nursing Law which created, among others, a board of examiners for nurses.

Act No. 2808 of 1919

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It was in the year ? when the first board
examination in the Philippines was given.

1920

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Provisions included the organization of the Board of Examiners for nurses, provisions regarding nursing schools and colleges, examination, registration of nurses including other provisions relative to the practice of nursing.

RA 877 The Philippine Nursing Law (June 19, 1953)

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Amended certain portions of R.A. 877, particularly significant salient changes in the nursing profession

RA 4704 ( June 18, 1966)

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Amended Section 17 of R.A. 877

RA 6136 (August 31, 1970)

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Introduced by Sen. Heherson Alvarez, codified and revised all the laws regulating the practice of nursing in the Philippines.

RA 7164 The Philippine Nursing Act of 1991

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Amended R.A. 7164, including its Implementing Rules and Regulations.

RA 9173 Philippine Nursing Act of 2002

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Presidential Proclamation of Nurses’ Week every last week of October every year to dedicate the
promotion of the ideals of the nursing profession, developing consciousness and availability of
nursing resources in the Philippines.

Proclamation No. 539 (October 17, 1958)

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Created the Professional Regulation Commission and prescribed its powers and functions.

Presidential Decree No. 223 (June 23, 1973)

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Amended R.A. 2644 known as Midwifery Law, wherein, nurses, according to this act, should pass the Board Examination for midwives and be registered as such upon payment of the prescribed fee and submit to the Midwifery Board a certification from the Chief of Hospital or the Municipal or Provincial or City Health Officer that they actually had attended at least twenty (20) deliveries.

RA 7392 (June 18, 1960)

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This act prescribes permanent residence and reciprocity as qualifications for any examination or
registration for the practice of any profession in the Philippines.

RA 5181 (Reciprocity)

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Sale, administration, delivery, distribution, and transportation of prohibited drugs are punishable by
law.

RA 6425 (Dangerous Drugs Act)

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Liberalizes the treatment of leprosy, except when the disease requires institutional treatment, no
person afflicted with leprosy shall be confined in a leprosarium, patients shall be treated in a
government skin clinic, rural health unit or by a duly licensed physician.

RA 4073 (Treatment of Leprosy)

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Requires compulsory immunization for all children below eight years of age against communicable
diseases.

PD 996 (Compulsory Immunization)

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Penalty for improper disposal of garbage and other forms of uncleanliness.

PD 825 (Proper Waste Disposal)

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Provides the control of all factors in man’s environment that affect health including the quality of water, food, milk, control of insects, animal carriers,
transmitters of disease, sanitary and recreation facilities, noise, unpleasant odors and control of nuisance.

PD 856 (Sanitation Code)

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Requires all hospitals in the Philippines to be licensed before it can offer to serve the community.

RA 4226 (Hospital Licesnsure Act)

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Provides workers the right to self-organization and collective bargaining,
promoting the rights and welfare of workers.

PD 442 (Labor Code of the Philippines)

Registration of birth of a child within 30 days with the Civil Registrar

PD 651 (Birth Registration)

Act to promote, require and ensure the production of an adequate supply, distribution, use and acceptance of drugs and medicines identified by their generic names (all medicines shall be prescribed in generics)

RA 6675 (The Generics Act of 1988)

? has the power to promulgate a Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses in coordination and consultation with the accredited professional organization (Sec. 9, (g), Art. 3 of RA 9173).

The Board of Nursing

The ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses has four (4) principal elements that outline the standards of ethical conduct.

Nurses and people Nurses and practice Nurses and the profession Nurses and the co-workers

The appropriate authority to administer, implement, and enforce the regulatory policies of government with respect to the regulation and licensing of the various professions and occupations under its jurisdiction is the ?

Professional Regulation Commission

Every registered nurse shall renew his/her license every ? years with the PRC on the form prescribed, not later than the due date indicated in the PRC license card and pay the prescribed fee.

PRC Resolution Number 2004-179 Series of 2004, entitled, “Standardized Guidelines and Procedures for the Implementation of the Continuing Professional Education for Professionals” requires that the total CPD credits for registered professionals with baccalaureate degree shall be ? credits for three years. Any excess credits earned shall not be carried over to the next three-year period except for doctoral and master's degrees.

Describe a competent level of nursing care as demonstrated by the critical thinking model known as the nursing process.

Standard of Practice

Legal wrong, committed against a person or property independent of a contract which renders the person who commits it liable for damages in a civil action.

Tort

Refers to the commission or omission of an act, pursuant to a duty, that a reasonably prudent person in the same or similar circumstances 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

Negligence

Improper or unskillful care of the patient by a nurse; also denotes stepping beyond one’s authority with serious consequences.

Malpractice

Lack of ability, or legal qualifications and being unfit to discharge the required duty.

Incompetence

Ground for the revocation and suspension of certificate of registration.

Incompetence

Doctrines Related to the Nursing Practice: Evidence

Doctrine of Res Ipsa Loquitor

Doctrines Related to the Nursing Practice: brought by natural causes

Doctrine of Force Majeure

Doctrines Related to the Nursing Practice: let the superior speak for their subordinate

Doctrine of Respondeat Superior

Criminal Liability: Take a direct part in the execution of the act; who directly force or induce others to commit it; or who cooperate in the commission of the offense by another act without which it would not have been accomplished

Principal

Criminal Liability: Persons who, not being principals, cooperate in the execution of the offense by previous or simultaneous act

Accomplice

Criminal Liability: Has the knowledge of the criminal intention of the principal

Accomplice

Criminal Liability: Persons who have the knowledge of the commission of the crime, either as principals or accomplices, take part subsequent to its commission by profiting themselves or assisting the offender to profit from the effects of the crime by concealing or destroying the pieces of evidence involved in the crime

Accessory

Criminal Circumstamces: The acts are in accordance with the law and no criminal or civil liability shall take place

Justifying Circumstances

Criminal Circumstamces: Those which do not constitute justification or excuse of the offense in question, but which, in fairness and mercy, may be considered as extenuating or reducing the degree of moral culpability.

Mitigating Circumstances

Criminal Circumstamces: Those attending the commission of a crime and which increase the criminal liability of the offender or make his guilt more severe.

Aggravating Circumstances

Criminal Circumstamces: There are certain circumstances under which the law exempts a person from criminal liability for the commission of a crime.

Exempting Circumstances

Freely chosen,nenduring beliefs ormattitudes about the worth of a person, object, idea, or action

Value

Based on faith than a fact and may or may not be true.

Belief

Mental positions or feelings toward a person, object or idea.

Attitude

What a person believes to be right and good.

Morality

Critical reflection about morality and rational analysis about it.

Ethics

Systematic study of human behavior in the field of life science and health care in light of moral values and principles.

Bioethics

A latin term commonly understood to mean "on the first appearance" or "based on the first impression"

Prima Facie Duties

has been passed to encourage on-the spot volunteer first aid in emergency situations by persons with proper knowledge and skills

The Good Samaritan Law

A nurse therefore who renders first aid or treatment at the scene of an emergency and who does so within the standard of care, acting in good faith, is relieved of the consequences of the act

The Good Samaritan Law

The patient is ill of communicable disease and public safety may be jeopardized

RA 11332