Question

List at two legal obligations and at least two ethical obligations that you must comply with when working with older people. For each, describe in approximately 100 words how you ensure compliance in your work practice.

Answer 1

According to UKCC (United Kingdom central council for nursing) code indicates that nurses are under a professional obligation to "..... act always in such a way as to promote and safe guard the interests and well-being of patients and clients"

Legal obligations of the nurse in working with old age people

1)provider of service

-Ensure that client receives competent, safe and holistic care

-Render care by "standards of reasonable, prudent person

-Supervise /evaluate that which has been delegated

-Documentation of care

-Maintain clinical competency

2)Responsibility of appointing and assigning

3)Responsibility in quality control

4)Responsibility for equipment

5)Responsibility for observation and reporting

6)Responsibility to protect public

7) Responsibility for record keeping and reporting

8)Responsibility for death and dying

Ethical obligations

​​​​​​-Respect for persons

It applies all life situations. It directs individuals to treat themselves and other with a respect inherent to main humans. The respect to old age persons a need to be simplified as not affects nursing practice

-rights

Rights is an entitlement to behave in a certain way under circumstances, such as nurses entitlement to freely express personal beliefs and preferences by voting in a political election.

Rights means agreement with justice, law and morality.

Ethical obligations need

1)Helps the nurse to practice ethically

2)Helps the nurse to identify the ethical issues in her work place

-Protecting patients right and dignity

--Providing the care with possible risk to the nurses health

-Staffing patterns that limit the patients access to nursing care

2)Ethical reasoning

3)helps the nurse to respond to ethical conflicts helps to differentiate right or wrong behavior

4)Guide for a professional behavior

5)Help teachers to plan education

6)Prevent below standard practice

7)Protect a nurse if falsely accused and guide direction for legal action

Key principles

-Autonomy

-Fidelity

-Justice

-Nonmalificence

-Beneficence

-Veracity

-Beontological