Legal and Ethico Moral Practice of Nurses

Nurses argon facing many a nonher(prenominal) legal or honorable dilemmas in their career. It is very inwrought to know what lovable of dilemmas fellates whitethorn face during their profession and how they stool been dealt with in the past. Nurses should combine knowledge of ethical and legal aspects of health care and pro values into nursing practice. It is very essential for the obliges to know the difference surrounded by legality and ethics.Ethics observes the values and actions of people. On the other hand, laws are necessary rules of turn out. A nurse whitethorn be faced with an act that may be ethical but not legal. The purpose of this see was to look into the take of complaisance to the Legal and Ethico-Moral responsibilities of Staff Nurses of Selected ordinal Hospitals in Lucena City and the assessment of their enquiry nurses.To achieve this purpose, the detective determined the demographic profile of the respondents in terms of age, gender, workout status , educational attainment and continuance of attend to the analysis of the train of compliance in terms to the legal responsibilities and ethico-moral responsibilities and in determine the significant difference mingled with the judgment nurse assessment of their lag nurse followed and then the significant relationship between the demographic profile and the assessment make by the rung nurses.Using the descriptive correlational and descriptive comparative method of research, the news report presented the demographic profile on the level of compliance of staff nurses and head nurses base on the gathered data. The study sufficient the questionnaire utilizing the Core Competency Standards for Nursing rule in the Philippines, PRC-BON Resolution No. 112, s. 2005 and the topic Competencies in the Context Entry-Level Registered Nurse by the College of Nurses of Ontario.Simple percentage, weighted mean, t-test and chi-square, and were used in the treatment of the data. The findi ngs of the study revealed that on the profile of respondents, most(prenominal) of the staff nurses belong to 21-30 years gray-haired age range, majority were female who were habitue or permanent, Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree holder with more than than two years of working experience. It was instal out that staff nurses complied at altogether times to the legal responsibility and ethico-moral responsibility.Furthermore, it was bony that there is significant relationship between the demographic profile of the staff nurse (age, gender, employment status, educational attainment and length of service) and the Level of Compliance to the Legal and Ethico-Moral responsibility. The researcher recommends to the hospital administrator that the result of this study be used to support the submit of professional and continuing education for staff nurses and to provide adequate, resources, training and development and a more supportive work environment.To the doubt Nurses that th ey do strict monitoring on the clinical area to ensure the compliance of staff nurses to the legal and ethico moral responsibilities. That the staff nurse should be encouraged to stop their nursing education and by participates in the research team of the hospital. . For future researcher, it is recommended to conduct or replicate this study on a larger scale in the public/private tertiary hospitals in other regions of the country, considering the eleven (11) competency standards.