HLTENN008 Apply Legal and Ethical Parameters to Nursing
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1HLTENN0081 1.1 Privacy act (1988) in nursing states that they have the responsibility to handle patient’spersonal information and obligation of not exposing or leaking information (Yuvaraj 2017). 1.2 Nurses have the responsibility to make health information of a patient only available forproviding healthcare as stated by My Health Records Act 2012. 1.3 Nurses should make sure that aged care services are available to all irrespective of culture,care, gender, language as stated by aged care act 1997. 1.4 Nurses have the responsibility to prohibit discrimination of persons against disability, inprovision of healthcare services and treatment as stated by Disability Discrimination act 1992. 1.5 Nurses have the obligation to work in accordance with the Criminal Code Act 1995 duringcreation of criminal offences dealt in Australian legal court system. 1.6 Nurses have the responsibility to minimize or prevent risk in their workplace and followwork health and safety regulations 2011 to minimize and manage exposure to risk (Sherwoodand Zomorodi 2014). 2. 2.1 Ethics are the standard phases that systemize, defend and recommend concepts for rightand wrong conduct. It helps to solve problems of human morality by defining evil and good,right or wrong. 2.2 Bioethics is the branch of medicine and biology that deals with the ethical issues related tomedical policy and questions pertaining to biotechnology, life sciences, medicine, law, politicsand philosophy. It is the study of values related to primary care and medicine. 2.3 Nursing ethics as a part of applied ethics deals with the nursing activities such as medicalethics such as non-maleficence, beneficence and respect for autonomy.
2HLTENN0083. 3.1 In consequentialism, the actions are judged based on the results obtained and more thegood outcomes of the act produced, more right or better the act is. When a person is faced withethical dilemma, it helps to choose the action based on the fact that produces maximum goodconsequences. 3.2 Deontological ethics stands position in the normative ethical values that judge action’smorality based on moral values. It is defined as an obligation of duty and moral judgment toevaluate whether one has complied with it or not (Sellman 2017). 4.4.1 Civil law associated with rules and regulations pertaining to private matters other thanpolitical, criminal or military issues. 4.2 Common law in UK based on court decision or custom administered through court systemsand convention. 4.3 Statute law is concerned with written laws under legislative body and laws that are declared,proscribed and commanded specific law in written form. 4.4 Precedent law is a legal case that is established on a rule or principle. It is utilized by thecourt to decide cases with similar facts or issues. 4.5 Law of torts are grounds for the lawsuits that provide compensation for the grieving party forany injuries or damages suffered. 4.6 Negligence is the failure to take reasonable care that must have been avoided to cause loss orinjury to another person. 4.7 Assault is the threat of bodily harm with an apparent ability to cause harm considered as tortor crime under civil or criminal liability.
3HLTENN0084.8 Battery in law is the tort of negligently (Australia) or intentionally bringing harmful orunconsented contact with person or something in close association with it. 4.9 Legal capacity is the authority of a person under law to be engaged in undertaking or inmaintain a particular status. 4.10 Intellectual capacity is defined as cognitive intelligence to learn, adapt, create, change,think, built that help to make connections, powder knowledge instantly that are of absoluteimportance. 4.11 Clinical capacity is the ability to make decisions in healthcare by understanding benefitsand risks, possible alternatives and communication during decision-making (Severinsson 2014). 4.12 False imprisonment is a condition when the person has restricted movement and can moveonly with consent or justification. 4.13 Defamation is the action of disruption of good reputation of someone, libel or slander. 4.14 It is the situation when a person is held responsible for omissions or actions of anotherperson. 4.15 Defendant is an individual, institution or company being accused or sued in court of law. 4.16 Plaintiff is the situation when a person brings a case against another person in court of law. 4.17 Harassment is the aggressive pressure on someone or intimidation. 4.18 Expert witness is a person whose specialized skill or knowledge is qualified that can bepresented in a particular field during legal proceedings.
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