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BY MAE SINGUAY
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BACOLOD City – Councilor Bartolome Orola wants to remind nurses to “act with love, compassion and care … at any given circumstance.”
Orola claimed to have received complaints from several poor patients that nurses, both in government and private hospitals, were not treating them properly.
Generally sick people “can be difficult to deal with,” what with “medications, financial difficulties and … confusion [making] them behave improperly,” he said.
“Mechanisms may be used to help effectively handle difficult patients,” Orola said in a resolution addressed to the Professional Regulation Commission and the Philippine Nurses’ Association. As to what “mechanisms,” the resolution did not state.
Orola reminded the nurses of the Code of Ethics for Nurses in the Philippines.
He said the Code was “devised as a guide [in] carrying out nursing responsibilities [and gives] clear instructions on what is ethical or right at any given situation.”
Citing the Philippine Nursing Act of 2002, Orola said the state shall “guarantee the delivery of quality basic health services through an adequate nursing personnel system throughout the country.”
All registered nurses must also “respect the patients’ rights” in delivering nursing care and “provide the best possible patient care and satisfaction regardless of the patients’ socioeconomic status,” Orola said./PN
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