Today our topic of discussion is Legal Issues in Nursing.
LEGAL ISSUES IN NURSING
The law constitutes body of principles recognized or enforced by public and regular tribunals have the administration of justice. The law is the body of principles Caring acknowledges the vulnerability of a client in recognized and applied by the state and the administrations of justice.
Law is that portion of the established thought and habit which has gained district and formal recognition and the shape of uniform rules backed by the authority and power of the government.
Types of Laws:
Civil law includes rules and regulations that specify the required course of action to be followed by an individual in business and social relationships with others. It is concerned with relationships among people and the protection of a person’s rights.
Criminal law defines offences that affect public welfare and security and impose penalties. It includes rules forbidding conduct that is injurious to public order and specifying punishments to be administered to individual who exhibits injurious conduct.
Common Legal Issues:
- Wrong medications, wrong dosage, wrong route of administration and wrong concentration.
- Mistaken identity: Prepare the wrong patient for an operation, to exchange babies in the labor room. To exchange dead bodies in the mortuary
- Flure to communicate
- Maintenance of record
- Giving explanation Bus and getting the concerned
- Bum and false
- Counting sponges and instruments during surgery
- Loss or damage patient’s property and fame
- Euthanasia or mercy killing-Taking positive step to kill a person in order to end his suffering is a munder
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