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    The Philippine Nursing Act of 2002 (RA 9173) defines the scope of nursing practice in the Philippines. It states that nursing includes promoting health, preventing illness, providing nursing care during all life stages, collaborating with other healthcare providers, and utilizing the nursing process. The duties of a nurse include utilizing traditional and innovative nursing approaches, executing healthcare techniques, providing essential primary healthcare, teaching health education, administering medications, and establishing community linkages. Nurses are also responsible for teaching and supervising nursing students, undertaking consultation services, and participating in nursing research and training.

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    The Philippine Nursing Act of 2002 (RA 9173) defines the scope of nursing practice in the Philippines. It states that nursing includes promoting health, preventing illness, providing nursing care during all life stages, collaborating with other healthcare providers, and utilizing the nursing process. The duties of a nurse include utilizing traditional and innovative nursing approaches, executing healthcare techniques, providing essential primary healthcare, teaching health education, administering medications, and establishing community linkages. Nurses are also responsible for teaching and supervising nursing students, undertaking consultation services, and participating in nursing research and training.

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    The Philippine Nursing Act of 2002 (RA 9173) defines the scope of nursing practice in the Philippines. It states that nursing includes promoting health, preventing illness, providing nursing care during all life stages, collaborating with other healthcare providers, and utilizing the nursing process. The duties of a nurse include utilizing traditional and innovative nursing approaches, executing healthcare techniques, providing essential primary healthcare, teaching health education, administering medications, and establishing community linkages. Nurses are also responsible for teaching and supervising nursing students, undertaking consultation services, and participating in nursing research and training.

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    The Philippine Nursing Act of 2002 (RA 9173) defines the scope of nursing practice in the Philippines. It states that nursing includes promoting health, preventing illness, providing nursing care during all life stages, collaborating with other healthcare providers, and utilizing the nursing process. The duties of a nurse include utilizing traditional and innovative nursing approaches, executing healthcare techniques, providing essential primary healthcare, teaching health education, administering medications, and establishing community linkages. Nurses are also responsible for teaching and supervising nursing students, undertaking consultation services, and participating in nursing research and training.

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    R.A. No.

    9173 The Philippine Nursing Act of 2002


    (Approved Oct. 21, 2002)
    - An act providing for a more responsive nursing profession, repealing for the
    purpose R.A. No. 7164, otherwise known as the The Philippine Nursing Act
    of 1991 and for other purposes:

    Section 28 Scope of Nursing


    - A person shall be deemed to be practicing nursing within the meaning of this Act
    when he/she singly or in collaboration with another, initiates and performs
    nursing services to individuals, families and communities in any health care
    setting. It includes, but not limited to, nursing care during conception, labor,
    delivery, infancy, childhood, toddler, pre-school, school age, adolescence,
    adulthood and old age. As independent practitioners, nurses are primarily
    responsible for the promotion of health and prevention of illness. As members of
    the health team, nurses shall collaborate with other health care providers for the
    curative, preventive, and rehabilitative aspects of care, restoration of health,
    alleviation of suffering, and when recovery is not possible, towards a peaceful
    death. It shall be the duty of the nurse to:
    a) Provide nursing care through the utilization of the nursing process. Nursing
    care includes, but not limited to, traditional and innovative approaches,
    therapeutic use of self, executing health care techniques and procedures,
    essential primary health care, comfort measures, health teachings, and
    administration of written prescription for treatment, therapies, oral, topical and
    parenteral medications, internal examination during labor in the absence of
    antenatal bleeding and delivery. In case of suturing of perineal laceration,
    special training shall be provided according to protocol established;
    b) Establish linkages with community resources and coordination with the health
    team;
    c) Provide health education to individuals, families and communities;
    d) Teach, guide and supervise students in nursing education programs including
    the administration of nursing services in varied settings such as hospitals and
    clinics; undertake consultation services; engage in such activities that require
    the utilization of knowledge and decision-making skills of a registered nurse;
    and
    e) Undertake nursing and health human resource development training and
    research, which shall include, but not limited to, the development of advance
    nursing practice;

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