Professional Indemnity Insurance Arrangements: Assignment

Q1-
Access the “Fact sheet: Professional indemnity insurance arrangements” and Registration
Standards through the NMBA.
Describe the insurance you are required to hold as an enrolled nurse (division 2).
As an enrolled nurse it is necessary to have PII arrangements, also known as professional
indemnity insurance. It provides insurance from the civil liability. It covers all the expenses and
legal claims arising due to the nurse’s practice (Brett et al. 2014).
Q2-Describe the role that the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia has in regulating the
nursing profession:
 The NMBA is responsible for registering midwifery and nursery students and practitioners
 It is responsible for developing and providing guidelines, codes and standards for the
nursing profession
 It manages the complaints, investigations, notifications along with disciplinary hearings
(Wu, 2015)
Q3- Describe the intent of the Commonwealth Aged Care Act (1997)
The Aged Care 1997 ensures the access of individuals to aged care requiring who requires. The
act protects individuals irrespective of caste, gender, culture, language, geographic location or
economic condition. The Act is enforceable throughout Australia (Simmons et al. 968).
Q4
Legal Term What is it and how does it apply to nursing practice?
Civil law
Law dealing with private matters and relations within community.
Dispute, mistreatment issues.
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Common law
It is known as case law or judge-made law, made by courts, judges and
tribunals.
Used to inform the legal procedures and approaches related to the
nursing and overall health care practice.
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Statute law
Federal Parliament passes the law and is applicable throughout the
country (Simmons et al. 2016).
This law affects the practicing guide and information.
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Torts
It refers to the breach of contract and the action considered being a civil
wrong.
It is applicable in cases of misconduct and wrong.
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Precedent
It refers to a guiding action, an example.
In nursing practice precedent cases are used to give proper nursing
guiding practice.______________________________________________
Negligence
Negligence is the failure for taking proper care.
In nursing practice, it means not paying attention and care to the patients
(Thompson,
2016). ______________________________________________
Trespass
Trespass means entering somebody’s place without permission.
In nursing practice it means not to deal with medical things and
information which are considered restricted or non-permissible.
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Assault and battery It refers to the deed of threatening an individual using physical contact.
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Consent (including
valid consent) Agreement.______________________________________________
Capacity Ability. ______________________________________________
Clinical incapacity Failure to provide medical assistant.
______________________________________________

False imprisonment It occurs when a person confines another person without legal authority.
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Defamation The right to conduct legal action against any damaging article about the
person. ______________________________________________
Vicarious liability When a person is wrongfully accused of the action done by
another. ______________________________________________
Defendant An individual accused or sued in the law court.
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Plaintiff An individual filing case against another in the law court.
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Harassment Aggressive intimidation or pressure.
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Expert witness A person having the knowledge and facts about a case used in the legal
proceedings. ______________________________________________
Define the following legal terms and principles above.
Answer in a separate document and attached it to the submission space provided.
Q5-
Define the following ethical terms:
· Ethics: Morality, moral principles
· Bioethics: The ethics concerning biological and medical research (Rodrigues et al. 2016)
· Nursing ethics: Ethics applied during nursing, giving care and health service
Q6

Choose two of the following ethical theories and describe how you can apply them in your practice
as a nurse:
· Consequentialism
· Deontology
· Ethical Relativism: The theory states that morality is a relative term with one’s cultural
norms. The action right for one can be the reverse for another. The nurse should give service
assessing and understanding the cultural differences (Vogt, 2015).
· Utilitarianism theory
· Teleology
· Virtue ethics: Virtue ethics focuses on the individual’s character.
· Justice and equity
Q7-The following are considered to be ethical issues in Health Care, particularly in enrolled
nursing practice. For each, describe the ethical dilemma and what makes the issue an ethical
issue:
Issue / Dilemma What is it? Why is it an issue of ethics?
Abortion
It is the process of terminating
unwanted pregnancy.
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It means killing a child which is
unethical. Some think that it is not
right to have a child in unfavorable
circumstance (Curtis et al. 2014).
_____________________________
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Tissue and organ
donation and
transplantation
Donation and transplantation
process.
______________________________
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Transplantation and donation is
ethical if both the parties are willing
to
do. __________________________
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Reproductive
technology
The process of
reproduction. ___________________
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Reproduction can be an issue for
the patients.
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Euthanasia and Refers to cases of suicide with Health providers have the duty to