Medical and Nursing Civil Liability and Ethics in the Provision of Health Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 365-374
Author(s):  
Theophano Papazissi ◽  
Fotios Chatzinikolaou
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Oncological Patients ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
Nursing Activity ◽  
Current Code

After 2000, specific legislation on civil liability and ethics of nurses and doctors was introduced, as well as specific acts. For nurses and the nursing profession, since 2001, the Code of Nursing Ethics (NCSD, Presidential Decree 216/2001) has been in force. In 2005, the current Code of Medical Ethics (KID, Law 3418/2005) was passed. Special Law 3305/2005 on the application of assisted reproduction methods was introduced to specify how the methods introduced in the Civil Code were applied as methods of generating kinship among persons under Law 2089/2002 (MAP). The chapter summarizes the main points regarding civil liability of medical and nursing activity with a special focus on oncological patients.

Medical and Nursing Civil Liability and Ethics in the Provision of Health Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 260-269
Author(s):  
Theophano Papazissi ◽  
Fotios Chatzinikolaou
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Oncological Patients ◽  
Presidential Decree ◽  
Nursing Activity ◽  
Current Code

After 2000, specific legislation on civil liability and ethics of nurses and doctors was introduced, as well as specific acts. For nurses and the nursing profession, since 2001, the Code of Nursing Ethics (NCSD, Presidential Decree 216/2001) has been in force. In 2005, the current Code of Medical Ethics (KID, Law 3418/2005) was passed. Special Law 3305/2005 on the application of assisted reproduction methods was introduced to specify how the methods introduced in the Civil Code were applied as methods of generating kinship among persons under Law 2089/2002 (MAP). The chapter summarizes the main points regarding civil liability of medical and nursing activity with a special focus on oncological patients.

Toward Reclaiming Our Ethical Heritage: Nursing Ethics before Bioethics

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marsha Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Code Of Ethics ◽  
Social Ethics ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Biomedical Ethics ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
The Social

American nursing has an extraordinary body of nursing ethics literature from the 1880s to the mid-1960s. This literature developed prior to the rise of the field of medical ethics (later termed biomedical ethics, then bioethics) in the mid-1960s, and bears little resemblance to its later counterparts. Early nursing ethics was nurse-centric; relationally based; addressed nurses’ ethical comportment in all roles; advanced the social ethics of nursing (especially in response to health disparities); and set forth ethical expectations for the profession as a whole. This first wave of nursing ethics is distinctive and differs significantly from contemporary bioethics, yet it remains grossly under-researched. It offers nurses a wise, comprehensive, generous, and learned ethics that deserves to be reclaimed for today’s nursing practice. This article will offer an author backdrop and an historical review of early nursing ethics literature; consider the nursing profession as a calling; discuss the pivot to bioethics and the Code of Ethics as anomaly.

scholarly journals Implications of the new regulations for psychiatric health services

Curationis ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annemarie M Bruwer
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
The State ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Self Evaluation

The theme Ringing in the changes is very apt for there are many changes in the nursing profession. This trend is however much more extensive in SA — change is taking place at a tremendous tempo and at nearly all levels of life, such as constitutional developments and rationalisation of the state departments. In view of this it is of particular importance that the nursing profession has chosen to do self-evaluation at this time and is therefore participating in this process of change.

Architectural Approach to eHealth for Enabling Paradigm Changes in Health

2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (02) ◽  
pp. 123-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Blobel
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Security Requirements ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Regulatory Affairs ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
Comprehensive Service ◽  
Architectural Framework

Summary Objectives: For improving safety and quality of care as well as efficiency of health delivery under the well-known burdens, health services become specialized, distributed, and therefore collaborative, thereby changing the health service paradigm from organization-centered over process-controlled to personal health (pHealth). Methods: Personalized eHealth services provided independent of time and location have to be based on advanced technical paradigms of mobile, pervasive and autonomous computing, enabling ubiquitous health services. Personalized eHealth systems require a multidiscipli-nary approach including medicine, informatics, biomedical engineering, bioinformatics and the omics disciplines but also legal and regulatory affairs, administration, security, privacy and ethics, etc. Interoperability between different components of the intended system must be provided through an architecture-centric, model-driven, formalized process. Results: In order to analyze, design, specify, implement and maintain such an interactive environment impacted by so many different domains, a formal and unified methodology for system analysis and design has been developed and deployed, based on an overall architectural framework. The paper introduces the underlying paradigms, requirements, architectural reference models, modeling and formalization principles as well as development processes for comprehensive service-oriented personalized eHealth inter-operability chains, thereby exploiting all inter-operability levels up to service interoperability. A special focus is put on ontologies and knowledge representation in the context of eHealth and pHealth solutions. Furthermore, EHR solutions, security requirements, existing and emerging standards, and educational challenges for realizing personalized pHealth are briefly discussed. Conclusion: For personal health, bridging between disciplines including ontology coordination is the crucial demand. All aspects of the design and development process have to be considered from an architectural viewpoint.

The Role of Caring in a Theory of Nursing Ethics

Hypatia ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara T. Fry
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Moral Justification ◽  
Nursing Ethics ◽  
Moral Decision Making ◽  
Moral Point ◽  
Fundamental Value ◽  
Human Caring ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

The development of nursing ethics as a field of inquiry has largely relied on theories of medical ethics that use autonomy, beneficence, and/or justice as foundational ethical principles. Such theories espouse a masculine approach to moral decision “making and ethical analysis. This paper challenges the presumption of medical ethics and its associated system of moral justification as an appropriate model for nursing ethics. It argues that the value foundations of nursing ethics are located within the existential phenomenon of human caring within the nurse/patient relationship instead of in models of patient good or rights-based notions of autonomy as articulated in prominent theories of medical ethics. Models of caring are analyzed and a moral-point-of-view (MPV) theory with caring as a fundamental value is proposed for the development of a theory of nursing ethics. This type of theory is supportive to feminist medical ethics because it focuses on the subscription to, and not merely the acceptance of, a particular view of morality.

scholarly journals Bringing the Nurse Back to the Bedside

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Bingham ◽  
Paul Ross ◽  
Susan Poole ◽  
Naomi Dobroff ◽  
Larnie Wright ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Care Outcomes ◽  
The Way

As digitisation continues to increase across Australian health services, the nursing profession has focused on analysing and measuring the way care is provided to the patients. Focus on optimising nursing workflows and improved care delivery has presented challenges but this is now demonstrating improvements in patient care outcomes and time for care.

scholarly journals Business Ethics in Medical Practice

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Cojocaru ◽  
◽  
Ayten Güler Dermengi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Business Ethics ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Health Unit ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
The Subject

The aim of the paper is to understand in depth the notion of medical ethics and how it can be applied by medical and auxiliary staff in daily work, whether we are considering a private health unit or a public unit with the same object of activity. The importance of the subject, in the authors' view, although it is always current, comes especially in the context of the need to improve the health of an increasing number of people affected by the SARS Cov2 pandemic, people who use health services.

scholarly journals Should nursing ethics be distinguished from medical ethics?

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Shamima Parvin Lasker
Keyword(s):  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Nursing Ethics

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/bioethics.v2i3.10256Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 2011;2(3):2

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