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Ms. Alisha Rijal
Lecturer
Psychiatric Nursing
Legal issues in nursing
 Terminologies
 Rules of conduct, established and enforced by
authority, which prohibit extremes in behavior so
that one can live without fear for oneself or one’s
property”.
By Sullivan and Decker, 2001
 Law is a system of right and obligations which the
state enforces
Halstead
Criminal
law Civil
law
Common
law
Legal issues in nursing
 Nurses have more responsibility
 Increased numbers of Advanced Practice Nurses
 To assist in the decision-making
 Protection of nursing practice
 For the identification of the risk of liability
Legal issues in nursing
Legal issues in nursing
 Civil wrongs committed by one person against
another
Intentional torts
Quasi-intentional torts
Unintentional torts
 video1
Assault
Battery
False
imprisonment
Invasion of privacy
MEANING
 Intrusion of Solitude
 Appropriation of Name, Likeness or Identity
 Public Disclosure of Embarrassing Private
Facts
 Health privacy laws
 Financial privacy laws
 Online privacy laws
 Communication privacy laws
 Privacy in one's home
 Information privacy law
Communication
Authority obtain
Informed consent
Negligence
 The omission of an act that a reasonable and
prudent person would perform in a similar
situation or the commission of something a
reasonable person would not do in that situation
 Joseph J Catalano
 Unintentional conduct that falls below a standard
of care established for the protection of others
against unreasonable risk of harm
 JA Halstead
Legal issues in nursing
 Video 2
Legal issues in nursing
Improper or unethical conduct or
unreasonable lack of skill by a holder of
a professional or official position
 JCAHO
 Failure of a professional person to render proper
services through reprehensible ignorance or
negligence or through criminal intent, especially
when injury or loss follows
 Medical Dictionary
Legal issues in nursing
 Failure to follow a physician‘s orders
 Delaying patient care
Legal issues in nursing
Legal issues in nursing
 Statute of limitations
 Failure to file that lawsuits
 Assumptions of harm
 Contributory of negligence
 Personal
Institution
Legal issues in nursing
Legal issues in nursing
 Prevent Equipment failure
Reporting and recording
 Causing damages to someone else’s reputation
 Common quasi intentional torts
 Libel
 slander
 Truth
 Privilege
 Avoid negative statements
 Medical record documentation
Legal issues in nursing
Legal issues in nursing
Legal issues in nursing
 Act of 1996
 numerous offenses relating to health care and sets
civil and criminal penalties for them
 creates several programs to control fraud and
abuse within the health care system
 may not be able to pay or have insurance or other
programs pay for the associated costs,
 they are legally responsible for any costs incurred
as a result of their care under civil law.
 fail to pay cannot be held criminally liable unless
they intentionally and knowingly provide false
identifying information to dodge billing
 Failure or damages caused during installation or
utilization of an EHR system
 implementation of electronic health records carries
with it significant legal risks
 Health care costs and payment issues
 Health care delivery services issues
 Issues about life and death
 Abortion
 Fetal rights
 Human experiment and research
 Patient rights
 Medical record
 Statute of limitations
 Complaint
 Answer
 Discovery
 Deposition
 Trial
 Medical record
 Rapport
 Skills
 Knowledge of the client
 Appointing and assigning
 Quality control
 Observation and reporting
 Protect public
 Record keeping and reporting
 Responsibility for death and dying
Journal Abstract
Legal issues in nursing
Legal issues in nursing

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Legal issues in nursing

Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. process involved in nursing practice
  2. Medication errors
  3. Incorrectly performing a procedure Documentation error Failure to get informed patient consent
  4. Personal Physician Supervisor Institution student
  5. Prevent medication errors Provide safe environment
  6. Prevent patient falls
  7. Monitor Communication
  8. Signatures Are Golden Documentation
  9. Report It or Tort It Rights to Privacy You’re doing WHAT? 
  10. patients treated under EMTALA may not be able to pay or have insurance or other programs pay for the associated costs,