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    The document discusses ethical and legal issues in community health nursing. It defines ethics as a system of moral principles and rules of conduct, and law as standards or rules of conduct established by the government to protect the public. Community health nurses face many ethical conflicts and must understand applicable laws, especially when working alone in communities. The purpose is to analyze traditional ethics and nursing principles and apply them to community health nursing practice.

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    ETHICAL AND LEGAL ISSUES IN COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING AND

    ITS IMPLICATIONS
    INTRODUCTION
    The community health nurse experiences and many ethical conflicts are existing in health care
    delivery system. As we began professional practice, it is essential to understand the law that
    defines the nurse's responsibility and duties. Especially the community health nurse must be
    very careful while doing services in the community because; there is a team of people working
    in the hospital. Whereas, in the community health nurses are alone and most of the time she is
    in position of to implement the services at home. So, she must be more careful and she should
    have enough knowledge on legal issues. The purpose of this topic is to analyze traditional
    ethics and professional nursing and apply these principles to the practice of community health
    nursing.
    DEFINITIONS

    "Ethics is a system of moral principles, and rules of conduct recognized in


    respect to a particular class of human actions or to a particular group of people."
    Ethics is a branch of philosophy dealing with values related to human conduct
    with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the
    goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.
    DEFINITION OF LAW
    It is a standard or rules of conduct established and enforced by the Government. These
    are intended to protect the public.
    SOURCES OF LAW
    1. THE CONSTITUTION: it is a system of fundamental laws or principles that
    governs a nation or
    society. 2. STATUTES: laws that govern. It is enacted by the legislative body or
    legislative law. Laws
    passed by council or parliament. For example, nurse practice act. 3. ADMINISTRATIVE
    AGENCIES: the rules and regulations established by executive branch of
    the government executive officers, mayors are responsible for law enforcement. For example,
    INC, Board of Nursing State/ Central level. TORT LAW OR COURT DECISION: judicial and
    decisional laws are made by the court to interpret legal issues. Court decisions can be changed,
    but only with strong justifications. For example, patients rights / measles vaccination.

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