NUR 104: BIOETHICS

• ALLIED HEALTH - Medical professionals who work to prevent, diagnos, and treat disease and illnesses
• Ethical Conduct - Right or Wrong

  • Sanction: loss of professional reputation, loss of professio affiliations
• Legal Requirements - legal or illegal

  • Sanction: Punishment as predicted by law
• Professional Etiquette- proper or improper

  • Sanction: loss of professional respect and fellowship
• Law - Body of rules of action or conduct prescribed by controlling authority
• Common Law - emanates from judicial decisions
• Statutory Law - arises from legislative bodies
• Administrative Law - flows from rules and regulations and decisions of administrative agencies
• Fundamental Principles of Law

  • Concern for justice and fairness
  • plasticity and change
  • acts judged on universal standard of reasonable person
  • doctrine of individual rights and responsibilities
• Plaintiff - person who brings an action in a court of law
• Defendant - Person againts whom an action is brought
• Prima Facie - Legally sufficient to establish a case
• Steps in a civil lawsuit

  • complaint
  • answer
  • discovery
  • trial and judgement
  • appeal
• Complaint - a formal written statement of a claim against another person or organization.
• Answer - defendant has three choices

  • admit
  • deny
  • plead ignorance
• discovery - fact finding phase
• trial and judgement- each side presents witnesses and evidence collected is places in record
• Appeal - losing party may appeal a trial court decision to a higher court
• Lower Courts

  • municipal trial court and municipal circuit trial court
  • metropolitan trial courts
  • regional trial courts
  • shari’a courts
  • court of tax appeal
  • sandiganbayan
  • court of appeals
• Highest Court - Supreme Court
• Arbiration - neutral third party of whom both sides have agreed will have power to decide outcome and render a binding