Odpovědnost versus právo v ošetřovatelské praxi

In our paper, we approach legal responsibilities in nursing practice. Right now almost any human activity is regulated and the area of human health care is no exception. Thanks to the development of medicine and nursing, care for the sick is becoming increasingly sophisticated, but also more risky. The intention is to provide a brief overview of the issue of legal responsibility of the nurse, both from the point of view of law, ethics, and especially from the perspective of sister practice. Because the nurse is the one who is closest to the pacifier (client) of the sparse medical presontal. Our goal is to clarify some legal concepts and to describe some areas of nursing care provided by legislative standards. And not only from the law of healthcare, but also from other branches of law related to this profession. Because this issue is very extensive, we would like to focus primarily on the actions and legislative norms that relate to the work of the general nurse at the bed and in the outpa- tient clinic. We will also point out the activities that the nurse performs daily. They define the law as „a set of generally binding rules of conduct and conduct of the members of society.“ Laws are the result of consciousness and will; in relation to legal standards it can be described as legal action. According to the Civil Code, a legal action means a behavior that is capable of producing legal consequences. The unlawful conduct is inconsistent with the law, we call it unlawful. The result is an illegal state and the legal order imposes an obligation to correct or eliminate the situation. In practice, nursing is perceived as nursing care, which takes place at a certain time. It is targeted at a person in a state of health and the environment. Nursing care is fairly clearly defined by Act No. 372/2011 as a set of activities and measures taken to determine the level of health, prevention and treatment of diseases and disorders, to improve and maintain health, and to alleviate suffering, including reproductive and parturition, by healthcare professionals. Confidentiality is one of the basic rules of medical ethics. The conclusion of the article is devoted to the legal responsibility of healthcare workers and the fact that the responsibility of healthcare workers is generally considered to be large, has its roots in perceiving health as one of the highest values of a person