SAS #5 Flashcards
are authoritative statement by which the nursing profession describes the responsibility for which its practitioners are accountable. It reflects the values and priorities of the profession
STANDARDS
A person shall be deemed to be practicing nursing within the meaning of this Act when he/she singly or in collaboration with another, initiates and performs nursing services to individuals, families and communities in any health care setting. It includes, but not limited to, nursing care during conception, labor, delivery, infancy, childhood, toddler, pre-school, school age, adolescence, adulthood and old age
SEC, 28, Scope of Nursing
As independent practitioners. nurses are primarily responsible for the
promotion of health and prevention of illness.
AN ACT TO MAXIMIZE THE CONTRIBUTION OF SENIOR CITIZENS TO NATION BUILDING, GRANT BENEFITS AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Republic Act 7432
OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE “EXPANDED SENIOR CITIZENS ACT-OF-2003” WHEREAS, the President signed into law on February 26, 2004 Republic Act No. 9257, known as An Act Granting Additional Benefits and Privileges to Senior Citizens Amending for the Purpose Republic Act No. 7432, Otherwise known as “An Act To Maximize The Contribution of Senior Citizens to Nation Building, Grant Benefits And Special Privileges And For Other Purposes
RA NO. 9257
GSIS means
SSS means
• Government Service Insurance System
• Social Security System
AN ACT GRANTING ADDITIONAL BENEFITS AND PRIVILEGES TO SENIOR CITIZENS, FURTHER AMENDING REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7432, AS AMENDED, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS “AN ACT TO MAXIMIZE THE CONTRIBUTION OF SENIOR CITIZENS TO NATION BUILDING, GRANT BENEFITS AND SPECIAL PRIVILEGES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9994
Basic ethical principles include
Autonomy
Beneficence
Nonmaleficence
Fidelity
Justice
Veracity
Confidentiality
• Concept that each person has a right to make independence choice and decision.
• Doing acts of mercy and kindness that, directly benefit the patient. these acts promote the health of the patient
Autonomy
Beneficence
Requiring to act in such a manner as to avoid causing harm to patients.
Concepts of faithfulness and the practice of keeping promise.
Nonmaleficence
Fidelity
fairness”; the right to demand to be treated justly, fairly and equally
Relates to the practice of telling the truth
Require not disclosure of private or secret information in which one is entrusted
Justice
Veracity
Confidentiality
direct actions on ethical issues in the care of geriatric populations. Rights are considered basic to human life, and each person is entitled to them on a legal, moral, or ethical basis
Patients rights
describe actions to be taken in a situation where the patient is no longer able to provide informed consent.
Advance Directives
are alternative documents that direct preferences for end-of life care issues providing an if then plan. They often include what type of care to provide and whether resuscitation measures should be taken…
Living wills
A living will may include a durable power of attorney, a legal document designating an alternative decision. maker in the event that the person is incapacitated. This document supersedes all other general legal designations for decision makers.
Durable Power of Attorney
Every person has a right to health and medical care corresponding to his state of health, without any discrimination and within the limits of the resources, manpower and competence available for health and medical care at the relevant time.
Right to appropriate medical care and humane treatment
The patient has a right to a clear, truthful and substantial explanation, in a manner and language understandable to the patient, of all proposed procedures, whether diagnostic, preventive, curative, rehabilitative or therapeutic.
Right to informed consent
The privacy of the patients must be assured at all stages of his treatment.
Right to privacy and confidentiality
In the course of his/her treatment and hospital care, the patient or his/her legal guardian has a right to be informed of the result of the evaluation of the nature and extent of his/her disease, any other additional or further contemplated medical treatment on surgical procedure or procedures, including any other additional medicines to be administered and their generic counterpart including the possible complications and other pertinent facts, statistics or studies, regarding his/her illness, any change in the plan of care before the change is made, and the person’s participation in the plan of care and necessary changes before its implementation.
Right to information
The patient is free to choose the health care provider to serve him as well as the facility except when he is under the care of a service facility or when public health and safety so demands or when the patient expressly waives this right in writing.
The right to choose health care provider and facility
The patient has the right to avail himself/herself of any recommended diagnostic and treatment procedures.
Rught to self-determination
The patient has the right to refuse medical treatment or procedures which may be contrary to his religious beliefs, subject to the limitations described in the preceding subsection
Right to Religious Belief
The patient is entitled to a summary of his medical history and condition.
Right to medical records
The patient has the right to leave hospital or any other health care institution regardless of his physical condition.
Right to leave
The patient has the right to be advised if the health care provider plans to involve him in medical research, including but not limited to human experimentation which may be performed only with the written informed consent of the patient…
Right to refuse participation in medical research
The patient has the right to communicate with relatives and other persons and to receive visitors subject to reasonable limits prescribed by the rules and regulations of the health care institution.
Right to correspondence and to receive visitors
The patient has the right to express complaints and grievances about the care and services received without fear of discrimination or reprisal and to know about the disposition of such complaints.
Right to express grievances
Every person has the right to be informed of his rights and obligations as a patient.
Right to be informed of his rights and obligations as a patient
Ethical responses to mistakes include:
- Honestly admitting the error occurred in a neutral and objective manner correct the situation
- Taking proper steps to 3. Apologizing for the mistake
- Evaluating how to prevent such mistakes in the future
- Making amends as possible
arise from competing loyalties and opportunities.
Conflict of interest
