Nurse Law & Patient Rights — Negligence, Torts, Consent & the Record

What it covers

• One careless act, three cases: crime, tort, license
• The four elements of negligence and the doctrines: res ipsa loquitur, Art. 2180, contributory negligence, captain of the ship
• Damages
• Where nurses get sued
• The intentional torts: assault, battery, false imprisonment, invasion of privacy, defamation and cyber libel
• RA 9439 and RA 11036
• Consent: elements, kinds, the witness, the refusal, who signs for whom
• Advance directives, DNR and RA 7170
• Confidentiality under RA 10173 and the disclosures the law compels
• The record as evidence: timing, corrections, verbal orders, the incident report
• Ethical principles, dilemmas, the ethics committee
• The impaired colleague and the duty to report
• Teamwork and communication in the code, the handoff and the family conference
• The patient's rights
• Read the stem, name the wrong