ethical and legal requirements for nurses’ clinical qualification

Legal concepts for nurses

Nursing is an activity based on skilled, emotional, ethical and lawful practice and any minor negligence bad or unknowledgeable practice may cause the patient and nurse physical and lawful problems. The best way to prevent problems is that nurses be aware of professional standards of care and related rules. In attention to the importance of knowing the concepts of law, it is suggested that such...

Ethical and Legal Requirements of Compensating Damages Resulted From Sexual Harassment

The first definition of sexual harassment which comes to mind is a behavior with force and violence. But is sexual harassment restricted to these behaviors? Apparently, sexual harassment comprises of a wide range; a range with rape on its one side (article 224 of the Criminal Code) and using offensive words (article 619 of the Ta’zirat part of the Criminal Code) containing sexual concept on the...

Ethical and legal aspects of clinical trials.

Retrospective research: What are the ethical and legal requirements?

Retrospective research is conducted on already available data and/or biologic material. Whether such research requires that patients specifically consent to the use of "their" data continues to stir controversy. From a legal and ethical point of view, it depends on several factors. The main criteria to be considered are whether the data or the sample is anonymous, whether the researcher is the ...

Legal and ethical matters

As David and Brierley (1968) pointed out, each political society in the world has its own law. In fact, it frequently happens that several laws coexist within the same state. Moreover, law is not static; it is in a state of flux, of evolution. The development of the law is shaped by logic, history, custom and utility, as well as the accepted standards of right conduct (Cardozo, 1921). It is the...

Medical Travel: The Ethical and Legal Challenges

Medical tourism is a term referring to the people traveling to other countries to obtain medical care. Like any other rapid growing indus­try, medical tourism has prompted ethical and legal issues. These issues are mainly pertained to malpractice and consumer protection. Beside these, risk management, foreign hospital liabilities, international ad­vocacy, facility ownership, intellectual proper...