Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Prepared by SALMAN
Prepared by SALMAN
CIVIL LAW
A tort is a civil wrong or injury for which
the court provides a remedy in the form
of money damages (black ,1999)
Intentional torts
Unintentional torts
Nursing standards of care are the legal
guidelines for minimally safe and adequate
nursing practice
Written policies and procedures of an
FALSE IMPRISONMENT
FRAUD
Assault is any intentional threat to bring
about harmful or offensive contact with
another individual, no actual contact is
necessary
Eg. threatening a patient to give an
injection
liquids
Falls resulting in injury to patients
in surgery cases
Failure to give adequate report , notify
DOCUMENTATION
EXECUTING PHYSICIANS ORDER
GOOD SAMARITAN LAW
PATIENT EDUCATION
PRIVILEGED COMMUNICATION
Informed consent is a patients agreement to
allow something to happen, such as surgery
based on a full disclosure of risks, benefits
alternatives and consequences of refusal
(Black, 1999)
CONFIDENTIALITY
ADVANCE DIRECTIVE
advance directives are legal documents stating
the wishes of individuals regarding health care in
institutions in which they are no longer capable
of giving personal informed consent
AUTOPSIES
ORGAN AND TISSUE DONATION
In India 5,00,000 people die because of
non availability of organs per year and
1,50,000 people await a kidney transplant
but only 5,000 get one 10 lakh people suffer
from corneal blindness and await
transplant (Times of india)
Types;
live donation
cedaveric donation
The transplantation of human organs
act, 1994
an act to provide for the regulation of
removal, storage and transplantation of
human organs for therapeutic purposes and
for the prevention of commercial dealings
in human organs and for matter connected
with it.
transplantation of human organs
bill 2013
Medical termination of pregnancy act -1971
The prenatal diagnostic techniques act and
rules
Narcotics drugs and psychotropic
substances act 1985
Mental health act ,1987
Consumer protection act
Prohibition of sexual harassment of women
at workplace bill,2010
Biomedical waste (management and
handling) rules,1998
The word ethics derived from the Greek
term ethos, which means ‘customs`
Eg;
It refers to the agreement to keep promises
, commitments ,responsibilities that one
has made oneself and others
families go to great lengthens to protect
a dying patient from the harsh truth of his
prognosis ,and the patient himself may
not wish to know
It refers principle of fairness
It implies equal treatment of all clients