Nursing Laws and Ethics

As care for profession infinitely progresses in its quest for excellence, its nature becomes mazy in the light of meeting the standards stick forth by the implementing bodies in nursing profession. These standards are indeed the result of watchful assessment and observation made to collapse the never ending issues and concerns pertaining to the legal responsibilities and estimable obligations of nurses.Many of these include the duty to interpret and halt out orders, duty to monitor the patient, charge of authority, consent to medical exam and surgical procedures, confidentiality of medical records, negligence and others. exactly among the issues and concerns aforementioned, one of the more or less controversial issues which caught my attention is Malpractice. Sometimes, nurses, for some person-to-person reason, go beyond their boundaries and exceed the reach of nursing practice they are ought to bring up at exclusively times.In abroad, there subscribe been numerous r eported incidents wherein Filipino nurses who happened to be medical doctors here in the Philippines were aerated of malpractice and was deported back here for attempting to save a dying patient in the absence seizure of the medical doctor in-charge. Legally speaking, what they did was a breach of duty and basically, they should welcome been subjected to same sanction.However, as far as nurses give tongue to duty is concerned, its also their righteousness to save and protect life at all cost. I understand that, doing the ponder beyond their legal limitations was hard for them. only if because Filipino nurses are typically compassionate, they have set aside the thought of face consequences of their actions and didnt think twice when they dictum the imminent danger to the patients life, considering their knowledge and experience in small situations as doctors.It is quite paradoxical in nature, to which side they are to choose in the center of ethical dilemmas like that. In t he code of nurses developed by the Ameri throne Nurses Association, there is no way they explain ethically peaceable behaviour. But beingness passive will believe ii affaires at the same time. First, being passive and adherent to the scope of their jobs will mean being firm in their elect profession and avoid legal responsibilities on their part.Secondly, it will mean depriving them of their own knowledge and freewill to do the right thing and do nothing as if they cant do anything in the midst of life-threatening situation. As for me, we are all trained and equipped with ethical principles and laws still to guide us in devising the right decision for the good of all. But no one can rattling tell us what exactly to do or which way to go. It is always, our wisdom, wise cerebration and judicious assessment of the situation that would surpass us to make the correct decision.