Published: 2018-06-12

The Professional Responsibility of Nurses, Midwives and Pharmacists: Notes on Current Legislation and the Need for New Provisions

Jolanta Pacian
Zeszyty Prawnicze
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2018.18.1.07

Abstract

Summary

Professional and disciplinary liability are an inherent part of obligatory membership of a professional association. Obligatory membership of a professional self-governing body means that there is a defined scope of members’ rights and duties, and hence a defined sphere of relations between the defendant and the given professional self-governing body under Polish administrative law. Only persons practising in a specific profession, that is belonging to a specific professional association, are subject to its professional liability. Nurses, midwives and pharmacists are still professionally liable even if what they have done or failed to do is not subject to penalisation under criminal law. However, they may be penalised under administrative law, that is provisions of the legislation on practice in the particular profession in question. Te criterion regarding rights clearly distinguishes between proceedings for professional liability and the criminal procedure, and at the same time indicates that the character of the former is based on administrative law.

Keywords:

pharmacists, nurses, midwives, professional liability.

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Pacian, J. (2018). The Professional Responsibility of Nurses, Midwives and Pharmacists: Notes on Current Legislation and the Need for New Provisions. Zeszyty Prawnicze, 18(1), 143–160. https://doi.org/10.21697/zp.2018.18.1.07

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