Scope and Standards of Nursing Practice PDF

SCOPE AND STANDARD OF NURSING  Care of children from birth through young PRACTICE adulthood – care in settings as diverse as birthing room, a pediatric...

SCOPE AND STANDARD OF NURSING  Care of children from birth through young PRACTICE adulthood – care in settings as diverse as birthing room, a pediatric intensive care unit, or the home SCOPE OF PRACTICE  Defines the boundaries of the practitioner’s LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS OF MATERNAL-CHILD license. PRACTICE  Describes the “who”, “what”, “where”, “when”, 1. New technologies – can lead to potential legal “why”, and “how” of nursing practice. actions, especially if clients are uninformed about the reason or medical necessity for STANDARS these procedures. 2. Nurses are legally responsible for protecting  Are authoritative statements of the duties that the rights of their clients, including all registered nurses, regardless of role, confidentiality, and are accountable for the population, or specialty, are expected to quality of their individual nursing care and perform competently. that of other health care team members. New  Describe a competent level of nursing care as regulations on patient confidentiality demonstrated by the critical thinking model guarantee patients can see their medical known as the nursing process. records if they choose, but health information must be kept confidential from others. SCOPE AND STANDARDS OF MATERNAL AND 3. Understanding the scope of practice (the CHILD PRACTICE range of services and care that may be provided by a nurse based on state  Health care technology requirements) and standards of care can help  Area of childbearing and childbearing families nurses practice within appropriate legal  As children grow, families need continued parameters. health supervision and support to ensure 4. Documentations is essential for justifying children remains well. actions.  As teenagers or young adults reach maturity 5. Nurses need to be conscientious about and begin to plan for their own families, the obtaining informed consent for invasive cycle repeats and a new generation of support procedures in children and determining if becomes necessary. pregnant women are aware of any risk to the  Although nursing has, in the past, typically fetus associated with a procedure or test. divided its concerns for families during 6. If a nurse knows the care provided by another childbearing and childbearing into two practitioner was inappropriate or insufficient, separate entities, maternity care and child he or she is legally responsible for reporting health care are not two separate entities, but a the incident. Failure to do so can lead to a continuum. charge of negligence or breach of duty. EXAMPLES OF THE SCOPE OF PRACTICE Ethico-moral Considerations of Maternal-Child  PRECONCEPTUAL HEALTH CARE – Care of Practice women during three trimesters of pregnancy  Conception issues, especially those related to and the puerperium (the 6 weeks after in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer, childbirth, sometimes termed the fourth ownership of frozen oocytes or sperm, and trimester of pregnancy) surrogate motherhood  Care of infants during the perinatal period (the  Abortion time span beginning at 20 weeks of pregnancy  Fetal rights versus rights of the mother to 4 weeks after birth) SAMAR, JASMIN CARYLE O. | BSN 2E   Stem cell research - These stem cells are manipulated to specialize into specific types of cells, such as heart muscle cells, blood cells or nerve cells. The specialized cells can then be implanted into a person.  Resuscitation (for how long should it be continued?)  Number of procedures or degree of pain a child should be asked to endure to achieve a degree of better health.  Balance between modern technology and quality of life  Difficulty maintaining confidentiality of records when there are multiple caregiver. PATIENT’S RIGHTS 1. Right to appropriate medical care and humane treatment 2. Right to informed consent 3. Right to privacy and confidentiality 4. Right to information 5. The right to choose health care provider and facility 6. Right to self-determination 7. Right to religious belief 8. Right to be informed of his rights and obligations as a patient. SAMAR, JASMIN CARYLE O. | BSN 2E