ETHICS
Ethics is the systematic study of
What a persons conduct ought to be
with
regard to him or herself, other human
beings and the environment,
it is the justification of what is right or
good and the study of what a person’s life
and relationship ought to be,
not necessarily what they are.
I held her hand. They pumped her heart':
Agony of husband who watched his
pregnant wife, 31, die after Irish doctors
refused to perform an abortion because
Ireland is a 'Catholic country'
Savita Halappanavar, 31, was found to be
miscarrying when she was admitted to
Galway University Hospital
The dentist, who was 17 weeks pregnant,
was denied a medical termination despite
being in 'agonising pain'
Mrs Halappanavar, who went on to suffer a
miscarriage, developed septicaemia and
died on October 28
Her husband, Praveen Halappanavar, says
he has lost his 'soulmate'
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny has come
under renewed pressure to legislate for
abortion
More than 1,000 demonstrators protest
outside the Irish parliament building
Abortion is illegal in the Republic of
Ireland
LEGAL LIABILITY IN NURSING
• Negligence
• Malpractice
• Torts
NEGLIGENCE
• Means an act or conduct that falls below the standard of care.
• The joint commission of accreditation of health care organization
(JCAHO) defines negligence is failure to use such care as a reasonably
prudent and careful person would use under similar circumstances.
• It is an act of omission i.e. neglect to do something
MAL
PRACTICE
• It is a negligence or carelessness by a professional person.
• It is professional misconduct, unreasonable lack of skill
or infidelity in professional duties, evil practice or illegal
or immoral conduct.
TORTS
• A Torts is a civil wrong for which remedy is a common
law action for damages that are not liquidated and which
is not exclusively the breach of contract or trust.
PROBLEMS
ENCOUNTERED
Inability to make
diagnosis
Inacurate diagnosis
False negative
Termination
Failure to give advice
Wrong advice
ULTRASONOGRAPHY IN
OBSTETRICS
Legal issues can be there in:
Fetal anomalies:
Overlooked or missed
Some are not detected
Vaginal bleeding
Placenta praevia
IUGR, prematurity, wrong
dates
Fetal death
Ectopic Pregnancy
Fetal biophysical profile
• THE MEDICAL TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY RULES,
2003 :
1) Composition and tenure of district level :
committee
members would be : gynaecologists/surgeon/anaesthetist and other members of the local medical
profession, non governmental organization, and panchayati raj institution of the district.
one of the members should be a woman .
Tenure shall be 2 years.
LABOUR
MALPRACTICE
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Wilkin, 1993, Philadelphia.
• D.C Dutta, “Text book of Gynaecology” ,Vth edn, New Central Agency (p) Calcutta, 2001.
• FIGO Committee for the Study of Ethical Aspects of Human Reproduction. Recommendations of
Ethical Issues in Obstetrics and Gynecology. London: International Federation of Gynecology and
Obstetrics, 1997.
• Bergeron, Veronique, 2007, “The ethics of cesarean section on maternal request: a feminist critique
of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' position on patient-choice
surgery”, Bioethics 21(9): 478–87.
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refusal in the developing world”, Developing World Bioethics 6(1): 13–22.
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