Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Category Examples
Constitutional Right for due process
- A constitution creates legal rights and Rights for equal protection
responsibilities and is the foundation for a
system of justice.
Criminal (Public) Homicide, manslaughter
- Public law – refers to the body of law Theft
that deals with relationships between Arson
individuals and the government and Active Euthanasia
governmental agencies Sexual assault
- Criminal Law- deal with actions against Illegal possession of illegal of controlled
the safety and welfare of the public. drugs.
Category Examples
Contract (Private /Civil)
- Is a body of law that deals with
relationship among private individuals.
- It can be categorized into a variety of
legal specialties such as contract law or
tort law.
➢ Contract law – involves the enforcement Nurse and client
of agreements among private Nurse and employer
individuals or the payment of Nurse and insurance
compensation for failure to fulfill Client and agency
agreements
Professional negligence/malpractice
➢ Tort law – defines and enforces duties
Libel and slander
and rights among private individuals Invasion of privacy
that are not based on contractual Assault and battery
agreements. False imprisonment
Abandonment
Nurses as Witnesses
Ethics
is a system of moral principles or moral standards
governing conduct.
It is a particular system of principles and rules
concerning duty.
It is also called Moral Philosophy
It furnishes the norm by which relations among men are
regulated.
NURSING ETHICS
ETHICO-MORAL PRINCIPLES
AUTONOMY
BENEFICENCE
NONMALEFICENCE
VERACITY
CONFIDENTIALITY
JUSTICE
FIDELITY
ETHICO-MORAL PRINCIPLES
AUTONOMY
is having the freedom to make choices about issues that affect one’s life. It is the right to choose
what will happen to one’s own person. It is also the right to determine personal care given and by
whom.
3 Basic elements:
1. the ability to decide.
2. The power to act upon your decision
3. Respect for the individual autonomy of others
- the provision of a general respect for personal autonomy for both practitioner and patient alike.
ETHICO-MORAL PRINCIPLES
Principle of Beneficence: “DO ONLY WHAT’S GOOD”
BENEFICENCE
is a principle that requires nurses to act in ways that benefit clients.
NURSES HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP OTHERS BY DOING WHAT IS BEST FOR THEM.
ETHICO-MORAL PRINCIPLES
“NURSES SHOULD ACT WITH EMPATHY WITHOUT BAD FAITH OR ILL WILL, NOR MAKE
FALSE ACCUSATIONS.”
ETHICO-MORAL PRINCIPLES
ETHICO-MORAL PRINCIPLES
Principle of Confidentiality
“KEEP PRIVATE”
ETHICO-MORAL PRINCIPLES
ETHICO-MORAL PRINCIPLES
Principle of Fidelity
“KEEP YOUR WORD / PROMISE”
Fidelity is often related to the concept of faithfulness and the
practice of keeping promises.
A. State policy
B. State guarantee
A. State policy
o Government’s responsibility to protect and improve the nursing
profession through the institution of measures for the attainment and
improvement of the nursing profession through the ff measures:
1. relevant nursing education
2. humane working conditions
3. better career prospects
4. dignified existence of the Filipino nurse
B. State guarantee
Impaired Nurse
Unprofessional Conduct
Documentation
Incident Report
Incident Report
INFORMED CONSENT
✓ Written consent
✓ For procedures such as surgery, diagnostic tests,
experimental procedures, treatment of minors,
✓ It is defined as the permission granted voluntarily by a
person of sound mind, after the procedure and all risks
have been explained in terms the person can understand.
1.You must have the capacity (or ability) to make the decision.
2.The medical provider must disclose information on the treatment, test,
or procedure in question, including the expected benefits and risks, and
the likelihood (or probability) that the benefits and risks will occur.
3.You must comprehend the relevant information.
4.You must voluntarily grant consent, without coercion
*The consent form should be signed and dated both by the doctor and
the patient.
4. RIGHT TO INFORMATION.
- In the course of his/her treatment and hospital care, the client 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
6. RIGHT TO SELF-DETERMINATION.
- The patient has the right to avail himself/herself of any
recommended diagnostic and treatment procedures.
Negligence:
It is defined as the failure to give care that is normally
expected of a person in a particular position, resulting in
injury to another person.
DATA PRIVACY ACT OF 2012
(Republic Act 10173)
DATA PRIVACY ACT OF 2012
(Republic Act 10173)
SCOPE
This act applies to the processing of all types of personal
SEC. 4. Scope. –
DATA PRIVACY ACT OF 2012
(Republic Act 10173)
DATA PRIVACY ACT OF 2012
(Republic Act 10173)
Data Subjects
refers to an individual whose, sensitive personal, or privileged information is processed
personal
Personal Information Controller (PIC)
controls the processing of personal data, or instructs another to process personal data
on its behalf.
Personal Information Processor (PIP)
organization or individual whom a personal information controller may outsource or
instruct the processing of personal data pertaining to a data subject
Data Protection Officer (DPO)
responsible for the overall management of compliance to dpa
National Privacy Commission
independent body mandated to administer and implement the dpa of 2012, and to
monitor and ensure compliance of the country with international standards set for
personal data protection
DATA PRIVACY ACT OF 2012
(Republic Act 10173)
DATA PRIVACY ACT OF 2012
(Republic Act 10173)
Principle of Proportionality
The processing of information shall be adequate, relevant,
suitable, necessary, and not excessive in relation to a
declared and specified purpose. Personal data shall be
processed only if the purpose of the processing could not
reasonably be fulfilled by other means.
DATA PRIVACY ACT OF 2012
(Republic Act 10173)
PENALTIES
❑Ranging from P100,000 to P5,000,000
❑Imprisonment of 1 year up to 6 years
❖Unauthorized processing of personal information and sensitive personal information
❖Accessing personal information and sensitive personal information due to negligence.
❖Improper disposal of personal information and sensitive personal information
❖Processing of personal information and sensitive personal information for unauthorized purposes
❖Unauthorized access or intentional breach.
❖Concealment of security breaches involving sensitive personal information.
❖Malicious disclosure.
❖Unauthorized disclosure