Respecting ethical principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence in health care institutions

Authors

  • Saša Kadivec

Keywords:

etika zdravstvene nege, zdravstvene službe

Abstract

The article presents methods of ethical principles of beneficience and nonmaleficience assurance in health care institutions. The first part deals with the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence, the occurence of unfavourable events and ways of their inclusion into the system of quality assurance. The purpose of the establishment of the system of monitoring of unfavourable events is preventions of them in the future and prevention of malpractice in nursing care. The second part of the article brings the empirical analysis of the answers to the questions about the use of ethical principles in practice. In conclusion, the author asseses that more discussion of ethical dilemmas would have been required in the workplace and that inconsideration of directions in practice is solved more or less on a peer to peer basis. In conclusion propositions for the strategy of the program for quality assurance are presented.

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Published

2004-09-01

How to Cite

Kadivec, S. (2004). Respecting ethical principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence in health care institutions. Slovenian Nursing Review, 38(3), 211–217. Retrieved from https://obzornik.zbornica-zveza.si:8443/index.php/ObzorZdravNeg/article/view/2505

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 3 (2004)

Section

Retrospective (archive)

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