legal aspect in nursing education is also important for healthy nursing practice.

1. LEGAL
ASPECT

2. LEGAL REGULATION
• Who practice safely respect
both the voluntary and legal
controls that may the
boundaries of nursing practice
• Both of this controls are design
to ensure quality health care
and to protect society from
unsafe action.

3. TORTS
• Torts is a civil wrong made
against a person or property.
• Torts classified as unintentional
and intentional.
• Intentional torts:
assult,battery,invasion of privacy
• Unintentional torts:
negligence,liability

4. ASSAULT AND BATTERY
• ASSAULT: It is a threat or an attempt to
make bodily contact with another person
that person’s consent.
• BATTERY: It is an assult that is carried
out and includes every willfull,angry,and
violent or negligent touching of another
person’s body or cioths or anything
attached to or held by that other person.

5. INVASION OF PRIVACY
• THE FOUR TYPES OF INVASION OF
PRIVACY ARE :
• 1.instrusion on seclusion
• 2.appropreation of name or likeness
• 3.publication of private facts
• 4.Publicity placing one in a false light
• clients are entitled to confidential
health care. Eg;in a classic case,reporters-
published in her hospital room without her
consent .A claim for invasion of privacy was
upheld.

6. NEGLIGENCE
• negligence defind as performing an act
that a reasonably prudent person under
similar circumstances would not do,or
conversely,failing to perform an act
that a reasonably prudent person under
similar circumstances would do.
eg, if a driver of a car acts unreasonably
in failing to stop at a stop sign,it is an
negligens

7. LIABILITY
• Liability involves four elements that must be
established to prove that malpractice of
negligence has occured:duty,breach of
duty,causation &damages.
• Duty: it is refers to an obligation to use due
care and is defind by the standard of care.
• Breach of duty:it is failure to meet the
standard of care.
• Causation : it is failure to meet the stander
of care actually caused the injury.
• Damages : they are the actual harm or injury
resulting to the patient.

8. FALSE IMPRISONMENT
• Unjustified retention or
prevention of the movement of
another person without proper
consent can constitute false
imprisonment.

9. FRAUD
• It is willful and purposeful
misrepresentation that could cause,loss
or harm to person or property.
• A person fraudlently misrepresenting
himself or herself to obtain a licence to
practice nursing may be prosecutal
under the state’s nurse practice act .

10. WILLS
• State and provincial was regulate
requirements for will.
• The person who makes a will is called the
testator.
• A will describes the intension of a testator to
be carried out upon his or her death .
• A person who receives money or property
from a will is called a beneficiary.
• Nurse are vocationally asked to witness a
testator’s signing of his or her will and should
be familiar with the guidelines :

11. 1. The witness should feel sure that the testator
is of sound mind.
2. The witness should feel sure that the testator
is acting voluntarily and is not being coerced in
any way concerning the terms of his or her will.
3. Witness should watch the testator sign the will,
and they should sign in the presence of each
other.
4. Witness to the signature on will do not need to
read it.
5. In most states, a person who is a beneficiary in
a will is disqualified from acting as a witness to
the testator’s signature.