WEEK 13

• The scope of nursing practice is defined as a person being deemed to be practicing nursing within the meaning of RA No. 9173 when they initiate and perform nursing services to individuals, families, and communities in any health care setting.
• Nursing practice includes nursing years during conception, labor, delivery, infancy, childhood, adulthood, and old age.
• As members of the health team, nurses shall collaborate with other health care providers for the curative, preventive, and rehabilitative aspects of care, restoration of health, alleviation of suffering, and when recovery is not possible, towards a peaceful death.
• The Nurses Code of Ethics in the Philippines is based on seven ethical principles: beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, accountability, autonomy, fidelity, and veracity.
• Justice is fairness and impartiality, requiring nurses to make impartial, fair decisions regarding patient care without regard to a patient's race, age, sexual orientation, or economic status.
• Accountability means accepting responsibility for one’s personal actions.
• Nonmaleficence means doing no harm (intentional or unintentional), requiring nurses to provide care that reflects standards to avoid or minimize risk to the patient, healthcare team, or organization.
• Veracity is the principle of truth-telling, requiring nurses to be honest in their interactions with patients and colleagues.
• Beneficence is the act of doing what is good and right for the patient, encompassing charity and kindness, which require actions by the nurse to benefit others.
• Communication with patients and families is an essential skill that should be taught in medical education and practiced with competence throughout the career of the emergency physician.
• Fidelity is the practice of being faithful to a person, belief, or cause, involving keeping one’s promises.
• Autonomy is the ethical principle demonstrated when a nurse accepts the patient as a unique person with the right to his own opinions, values, beliefs, and right to make his own decisions.
• The duties and responsibilities of a nurse include providing nursing care through the utilization of the nursing process, which includes traditional and innovative approaches, therapeutic use of self, executing health care techniques and procedures, essential primarily health care, comfort measures, health teachings, and administration of written prescription for treatment, therapies, oral, topical, and parenteral medication, internal examination during labor in the absence of antenatal bleeding and delivery.
• In case of suturing of perineal laceration, special training shall be provided accordingly to protocol established.
• Nurses are primarily responsible for the promotion of health and prevention of illness.
• Nurses are primarily responsible for establishing linkages with community resources and coordination with the health team.
• Nurses provide health education to individuals, families, and community.
• Nurses teach, guide, and supervise students in nursing education programs including the administration of nursing service in varied settings such as hospitals and clinics.
• Nurses undertake consultation services.
• Nurses engage in such activities that required the utilization of knowledge and decision-making skills of a registered nurse.
• Nurses undertake nursing and health human resource development training and research, which shall include, but not limited to, the development of advanced nursing practice.
• Nursing students who perform nursing functions under the direct supervision of a qualified faculty are not considered as practicing nurses.
• Egg freezing can also be an option if you wish to preserve younger eggs now for future use.
• Eggs harvested from your ovaries are frozen unfertilized and stored for later use.
• Ovulation disorders, damage to Fallopian tubes, endometriosis, premature ovarian failure, uterine fibroids, genetic disorders, impaired sperm production, and egg freezing are reasons for embryo transfer.
• A frozen egg can be thawed, combined with sperm in a lab and implanted in your uterus (in vitro fertilization).
• Egg freezing might be an option if you have a condition or circumstance that can affect your fertility, are undergoing treatment for cancer or another illness that can affect your ability to get pregnant, or are undergoing in vitro fertilization.
• You can use your frozen eggs to try to conceive a child with sperm from a partner or a sperm donor.
• A donor can be known or anonymous.
• IVF and embryo transfer are needed in cases where natural fertilization is not an option or has difficulty occurring.
• Egg freezing might be an option if you're not ready to become pregnant now but want to try to make sure you can get pregnant later.
• You'll need to use fertility drugs to make you ovulate so that you'll produce multiple eggs for retrieval.
• The embryo can also be implanted in the uterus of another person to carry the pregnancy (gestational carrier).
• Unlike with fertilized egg freezing (embryo cryopreservation), egg freezing doesn't require sperm because the eggs aren't fertilized before they're frozen.
• Embryo transfer is the process of transferring the embryos from the lab to the woman's uterus.
• In vitro fertilization (IVF) involves removing eggs from a woman's ovaries and fertilizing them in a lab.
• Egg freezing, also known as mature oocyte cryopreservation, is a method used to save women's ability to get pregnant in the future.
• For a pregnancy to begin, the embryo must attach itself to the wall of the woman's womb or uterus.
• A nurse, while in practice of nursing settings, is duty-bound/required to observe the Code of Ethics and Code of Technical Standards for nurses, uphold the standards for safe nursing practice, and maintain competence by continual learning through continuing professional education to be provided by accredited professionals’ organization or any recognized nursing organization.
• To regard these moral principles, all screening procedures and physical examinations should be practiced with utmost care to minimize any risk to the surrogate mother and the baby.