<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Article 4, (1) Act of 15 July 2011 on the Professions of Nurse and Midwife specifies that the profession of a nurse encompasses providing health services. Point 6 specifies the kind and scope of attendance benefits, both for the patient and the care provider. It needs emphasizing that there is a statutory possibility of determining these benefits by nurses, understood as an opportunity to express a professional opinion related to specialized professional activities. This very study will both present and discuss an opinion that was created as a reference to the quoted article. The opinion is related to the scope, types and methods of performing nursing activities for the patient-plaintiff looking to receive a compensation from a healthcare entity. The document created during the process was used by the general court in the pending civil proceeding.</p><p>The description that was created took the form of an established standard of care. It defines the specificity, tasks and the amount of time that every nurse needs to spend caring for a patient who is bed-bound. The opinion was created to be used during court proceedings and can be applied to similar cases. This may establish it as a source of medical knowledge in case of recommended and desired scope care exercised by nurses, physiotherapists and paramedics.</p></abstract>

Article 4, (1) Act of 15 July 2011 on the Professions of Nurse and Midwife specifies that the profession of a nurse encompasses providing health services. Point 6 specifies the kind and scope of attendance benefits, both for the patient and the care provider. It needs emphasizing that there is a statutory possibility of determining these benefits by nurses, understood as an opportunity to express a professional opinion related to specialized professional activities. This very study will both present and discuss an opinion that was created as a reference to the quoted article. The opinion is related to the scope, types and methods of performing nursing activities for the patient-plaintiff looking to receive a compensation from a healthcare entity. The document created during the process was used by the general court in the pending civil proceeding.The description that was created took the form of an established standard of care. It defines the specificity, tasks and the amount of time that every nurse needs to spend caring for a patient who is bed-bound. The opinion was created to be used during court proceedings and can be applied to similar cases. This may establish it as a source of medical knowledge in case of recommended and desired scope care exercised by nurses, physiotherapists and paramedics.

Decisions on the type and range of care services for the purposes of court proceedings

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Article 4, (1) Act of 15 July 2011 on the Professions of Nurse and Midwife specifies that the profession of a nurse encompasses providing health services....

Decisions on the type and range of care services for the purposes of court proceedings

Published Online: Jan 20, 2017

Page range: 50 - 54

Received: Jun 27, 2016

Accepted: Sep 22, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pielxxiw-2016-0029

Keywords
adjudication, opinion, nurses, law, care

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Decisions on the type and range of care services for the purposes of court proceedings

Published Online: Jan 20, 2017

Page range: 50 - 54

Received: Jun 27, 2016

Accepted: Sep 22, 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/pielxxiw-2016-0029

Keywordsadjudication, opinion, nurses, law, care

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
adjudication, opinion, nurses, law, care