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1. The document defines ethical and legal standards for nursing assistants and identifies key issues around upholding patient privacy and avoiding negligence, malpractice, or abuse. 2. Ethical standards refer to codes of moral conduct while legal standards are philosophical concepts like patient autonomy, beneficence, and informed consent. 3. Nursing assistants must respect patient privacy by knocking before entering, drawing curtains during care, and keeping patient information confidential. 4. Legal issues include negligence, malpractice, defamation, false imprisonment, assault/battery, and invasion of privacy. Abuse of elderly patients is strictly prohibited.

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Nurse's Assistant Notes

1. The document defines ethical and legal standards for nursing assistants and identifies key issues around upholding patient privacy and avoiding negligence, malpractice, or abuse. 2. Ethical standards refer to codes of moral conduct while legal standards are philosophical concepts like patient autonomy, beneficence, and informed consent. 3. Nursing assistants must respect patient privacy by knocking before entering, drawing curtains during care, and keeping patient information confidential. 4. Legal issues include negligence, malpractice, defamation, false imprisonment, assault/battery, and invasion of privacy. Abuse of elderly patients is strictly prohibited.

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Topic: ethical and legal issues affect the nursing assistant objective end of the lesson student will

be able to 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Define ethical standard Define legal stand Define legal morality Define way to uphold ethical standard Identify legal issues

Sub topic ethical standard A the practice or belief The expected standard of moral behavior of the particular of a group as describe in a group formal code profession ethics .guilds to moral. To give correct care to the patient safely. Legal standard These are the statement about, general philosophic concepts. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Anatomy: the right to make own decision Beneficent Justice-fearless Fidelity faith to the agreement and promise Veracity telling truth Ways to uphold ethical standards Respect the individual example each patient values, customs, religious, regardless of age, culture, race, gender and nationality Patient information Information about the patient privately and only shared with others from the health care team that is directly involved with the patient discuss patient information appropriate place with people only .when a patient request for information Only the nurse or the doctor can give information about a patients death For a nurse assistant or doctor . Sub: ways to protect patient privacy 1. Protect the patient from undue exposure 2. Knock and pause before entering a room 3. Draw curtain when providing care

4. Leave while visitor are with a patient. 5. Dont listen while patient is talking on the phone unless information is relevant to the patients health. 6. Abide by the rules of confidentiality 7. Dont force personal belief 8. Dont discuss any of the patients information outside of work Sub legal issues that affect the nurses assistant system Negligent-failure to exercise or to carry out degree of care considerable and the failure result in a unintended injure to the patient. You would be guilty of negligent if you injure the patient. 1. Not carrying out job in an inappropriate manner 2. Not performing work as thorough as possible Malpractice- in proper , negligent or in ethical conduct that results in harm or injure or lost of the patient keep sake in bag or safe, taking any that belonging to you. Defamation-making false statements about someone to a third person and the characteristic of the first person is hurt False imprisonment-restraining person movement without authorization (restrain move or stopping the person from leaving) Assault and batteries- intentional to touch of a body of a person or even threatening to do so (actual touching a person without his or her permission Invasion of privacy-the patient has a right to appear to keep personal information or boundaries Age abuse-any act of failure that is non-accidental causing or to cause harm or death

Types of abuse Verbal abuse- youre guilty of verbal abusing patient if use profanity, raising of voice in an anger, if you call the patient names or tease of or in embraces Physical abuse physically handling a patient roughly Sexual abuse -this to torment or gestures or word. Touching in a sexual ways or suggesting that is sexual acted Psychological abuse- threatening or belittling a patient

Observing communication and documentation

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

To find communication To state communication Identify ways to communicate with Describe made communication State types of communication Identify ways to Communication patient State types of communication

8. Define documentation 9. List types communication

Communication is a exchange between two or more person. Nursing assistant communicate with patient, co-workers and supervisor The communication process Sender->message ->receiver ->response Modes of communications verbally communication is used to speak or written words

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