La ética y la responsabilidad médico legal y su praxis en las profesiones de enfermería y medicina dentro de un contexto clínico en la E.S.E hospital san francisco de Villa de Leyva

Abstract

The objective of this article was to measure the level of knowledge possessed by profesional and medical nursing personnel in relation to ethics and medical-legal responsibility and its praxis, the information collection process was carried out by means of the interview and the application of a survey with content of thematic relevance to the professionals of the E.S.E. San Francisco de Villa de Leyva hospital, which is a second-level hospital cataloged as a reference institution at the regional level, for this reason it has a broad human resource focused on providing a quality health service and for this reason it meets the inclusión criteria determined at the research level in the field of ethics; in which it became necessary to evaluate the ethical criteria and legal responsibility that these professionals apply during the execution of their work.

The informed consent was applied to 5 nursing professionals and 5 medical professionals, after which the completion of the surveys by the professionals was initiated, consequently the results analysis process was developed, where deficiencies were mainly identified in the legal knowledge on the part of both professionals within other pertinent findings for the process of continuous improvement of the quality of health care. Within the framework of conclusions and recommendations, the need to carry out training in the topics that identified deficiency and continuity in the evaluation of the same is appreciated.