Related Laws and Policies in Public Health 4
Related Laws and Policies in Public Health 4
Related Laws and Policies in Public Health 4
LAWS AND
POLICIES IN
PUBLIC
HEALTH
NCM 104
LEARNING • Adhere to ethico-legal considerations when providing safe,
OUTCOME quality, and professional nursing care.
• Apply ethical reasoning and decision-making process to
address situations of ethical distress and moral dilemma.
• Adhere to established norms of conduct based on the
Philippine Nursing Law and other legal, regulatory, and
institutional requirements relevant to safe nursing practice.
• Protect client rights based on “Patient’s Bill of Rights and
Obligations”
• Implement strategies/ policies related to informed consent
as it applies in multiple contexts.
CONTENTS • RA 9173: Philippine Nurses Act
• RA 7305: Magna Carta for Public Health Worker
• RA 11332: Law on Reporting of Communicable
Diseases
• PD 856: Sanitation Code
• RA 8749: Clean Air Act
• RA 6675: Generic Act
• RA 7875: National Health Insurance Act
• RA 7432: Expanded Senior Citizen’s Act of 2003
• RA 9165: Revised Dangerous Drugs Law
• RA 10028: Breastfeeding Act
REPUBLIC
ACT 9173:
PHILIPPINE
NURSING
ACT
REPUBLIC ACT • An act providing for a more responsive
nursing profession, repealing for the purpose
9173: Republic Act no. 7164,
OFFICE qualified
• And may be re-appointed for another term
SECTION 7. COMPENSATION OF THE BOARD MEMBERS
• All records of the Board, including applications for examinations, administrative and
other investigative cases conducted by the Board shall be under the custody of the
Commission.
• The Commission shall designate the Secretary of the Board and shall provide the
secretariat and other support services to implement the provisions of this Act.
• Conduct the licensure examination for nurses
• Issue, suspend or revoke certificates of registration for the practice of nursing
• Monitor and enforce quality standards of nursing practice in the Philippines and
exercise the powers necessary to ensure the maintenance of efficient, ethical and
technical, moral and professional standards in the practice of nursing taking into
account the health needs of the nation
• Ensure quality nursing education by examining the prescribed facilities of universities
or colleges of nursing or departments of nursing education and those seeking
permission to open nursing courses to ensure that standards of nursing education are
properly complied with and maintained at all times.
• Nursing Practice I: Basic Foundation of Nursing and Professional Nursing Practice (100 items)
• Nursing Practice II: Community Health Nursing and Care of the Mother and Child (100 items)
• Nursing Practice III: Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations, Part A (100
items)
• Nursing Practice IV: Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations, Part B (100
items)
• Nursing Practice V: Care of Clients with Physiologic and Psychosocial Alterations, Part C (100
items)
SECTION 15.
RATINGS
• Nurses who have not actively practiced the profession for five (5) consecutive years are
required to undergo one (1) month of didactic training and three (3) months of
practicum.
• The Board shall accredit hospitals to conduct the said training program.
SECTION 27: A member of the faculty in a college of nursing teaching professional
QUALIFICATIONS
OF THE FACULTY
courses must:
(a) Be a registered nurse in the Philippines
(b) Have at least one (1) year of clinical practice in a field of specialization
(c) Be a member of good standing in the accredited professional organization of
nurses
(d) Be a holder of a master's degree in nursing, education, or other allied medical
and health sciences conferred by a college or university
ARTICLE VI: NURSING PRACTICE
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, preschool, school age, adolescence, adulthood, and old age.
• As independent practitioners, nurses are primarily responsible for the promotion of health
and prevention of illness.
• A 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.
IT SHALL BE THE DUTY OF THE NURSE TO:
(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
(e) Undertake nursing and health human resource development training and research,
which shall include, but not limited to, the development of advance nursing practice
SECTION 29. QUALIFICATION OF NURSING SERVICE
ADMINISTRATORS
(1) At least five (5) years of experience in (2) A master's degree major in nursing
a supervisory or managerial position in
nursing;
ARTICLE VIII: PENAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
SECTION 35. • A fine of not less than Fifty
PROHIBITIO
NS IN THE thousand pesos (P50,000.00) nor
PRACTICE OF more than One hundred thousand
NURSING.
pesos (P100,000.00)
• or imprisonment of not less than
one (1) year nor more than six (6)
years, or both, upon the discretion
of the court, shall be imposed
upon:
(A) ANY PERSON PRACTICING NURSING IN THE
PHILIPPINES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THIS ACT:
(A) ANY PERSON PRACTICING NURSING IN THE PHILIPPINES WITHIN THE MEANING OF THIS
ACT:
REPUBLIC ACT 7305: MAGNA CARTA FOR PUBLIC HEALTH WORKER
REPUBLIC ACT • Also known as “Magna Carta of Public Health
Workers”
7305: MAGNA • SEC 2. Declaration of Policy and Objective.
GEOGRAPHICAL
REASSIGNMENT
OF PUBLIC b) A geographical reassignment,
hereinafter referred to as “reassignment,”
WORKERS
c) a public health worker shall not be
transferred and or reassigned, except
when made in the interest of public
service, in which case, the employee
concerned shall be informed of the
reasons therefore in writing.
SEC. 7.
MARRIED
• Whenever possible, married
PUBLIC
HEALTH
couples, whom are both
WORKERS
public health workers be
employed or assigned in the
same municipality, but not in
the same office.
SEC. 8. SECURITY OF TENURE
PHW be entitled to
reinstatement without loss of
Regular employment of public seniority rights and to his/her
If a public health worker is
health workers, their services back wages with twelve
found by the Civil Service
shall not be terminated except percent (12%) interest
Commission to be unjustly
for cause provided by law and computed from the time
dismissed from work,
after due process his/her compensation was
withheld from him/her up to
the time of reinstatement
SEC. 9. • A public worker shall not be discriminated
against with regard to gender, civil status,
DISCRIMINATIO creed, religious or political beliefs and ethnic
a) Every public health worker shall be paid night-shift differential of ten percent
(10%) of his/her regular wage
b) Every health worker required to work on the period covered after his/her regular
schedule shall be entitled to his/her regular wage plus the regular overtime rate and
an additional amount of ten percent (10%) of such overtime rate for each hour of
work performed between ten (10) o’clock in the evening to six (6) o’clock in the
morning.
SEC. 19. • In the determination of the salary scale of public
health workers, the provisions of Republic Act No.
SALARIES 6758 shall govern, except that the benchmark for
Rural Health Physicians shall be upgraded to Grade
24.
SEC. 20.
ADDITIONAL
COMPENSATION
SEC. 29. Leave Benefits • Public health workers are entitled to such vacation and
for Public Health sick leaves as provided by existing laws and prevailing
Workers practices
SEC. 30. Highest Basic • Three (3) months prior to the compulsory retirement, the public
Salary Upon Retirement health worker shall automatically be granted one (1) salary range
or grade higher than his/her basic salary and his/her retirement
benefit, computed on the basis of his/her highest salary
ACT 11332:
MANDATORY
REPORTING OF
NOTIFIABLE
DISEASES AND
HEALTH EVENTS
OF PUBLIC
HEALTH
CONCERN ACT
The Department of
Health (DOH) urged all It aims to protect Recognizes the disease
private and public health people from public surveillance and
workers, especially at the health threats response systems of the
municipal, provincial and through the efficient DOH and its local
barangay levels, to report counterparts as the first
all public health threats and effective disease line of defense against
and emergencies to the surveillance of epidemics or any events
DOH to continuously diseases of public that may pose a health
promote the welfare of health concern. threats to the public.
the people
Public health emergency refers to an occurrence or imminent threat of an illness or health condition that:
• The grant of twenty percent (20%) discount and exemption from the value -added tax
(VAT)
• “on the purchase of medicines, including the purchase of influenza and pneumococcal
vaccines, and such other essential medical supplies, accessories and equipment to be
determined by the Department of Health (DOH).
• “on the professional fees of attending physician/s in all private hospitals, medical facilities,
outpatient clinics and home health care services
• “on the professional fees of licensed professional health providing home health care services
as endorsed by private hospitals or employed through home health care employment
agencies
• “on medical and dental services, diagnostic and laboratory fees in all private hospitals,
medical facilities, outpatient clinics, and home health care services, in accordance with the
rules and regulations to be issued by the DOH, in coordination with the Philippine Health
Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth)
SEC. 4. PRIVILEGES FOR THE SENIOR CITIZENS
THE SENIOR CITIZENS SHALL BE ENTITLED TO THE FOLLOWING:
• The grant of twenty percent (20%) discount and exemption from the value -added tax
(VAT)
• “In actual fare for land transportation travel in PUBs, PUJs, taxis, Asian utility vehicles (AUVs),
shuttle services and public railways, including LRT, MRT, and Philippine National Railways
(PNR)
• “In actual transportation fare for domestic air transport services and sea shipping vessels and
the like, based on the actual fare and advanced booking
• “On the utilization of services in hotels and similar lodging establishments, restaurants and
recreation centers
• “On admission fees charged by theaters, cinema houses and concert halls, circuses, leisure
and amusement
• “On funeral and burial services for the death of senior citizens
SEC. 4. PRIVILEGES FOR THE SENIOR CITIZENS
THE SENIOR CITIZENS SHALL BE ENTITLED TO THE FOLLOWING:
• “exemption from the payment of individual income taxes of senior citizens who are considered
to be minimum wage earners in accordance with Republic Act No. 9504
• “the grant of a minimum of five percent (5%) discount relative to the monthly utilization of water
and electricity supplied by the public utilities: Provided, further, That the monthly consumption
does not exceed one hundred kilowatt hours (100 kWh) of electricity and thirty cubic meters (30
m3) of water
• “Exemption from training fees for socioeconomic programs;
• “Free medical and dental services, diagnostic and laboratory fees such as, but not limited to, x-
rays, computerized tomography scans and blood tests, in all government facilities, subject to the
guidelines to be issued by the DOH in coordination with the PhilHealth
• “The DOH shall administer free vaccination against the influenza virus and pneumococcal
disease for indigent senior citizen patients
SEC. 4. PRIVILEGES FOR THE SENIOR CITIZENS
THE SENIOR CITIZENS SHALL BE ENTITLED TO THE
FOLLOWING:
• “Educational assistance to senior citizens to pursue secondary, tertiary, post tertiary, vocational
and technical education, as well as short-term courses for retooling in both public and private
schools through provision of scholarships, grants, financial aids, subsides and other incentives to
qualified senior citizens, including support for books, learning materials, and uniform allowances,
to the extent feasible
• “To the extent practicable and feasible, the continuance of the same benefits and privileges given
by the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), the Social Security System (SSS) and the
PAG-IBIG
• “Retirement benefits of retirees from both the government and the private sector shall be
regularly reviewed to ensure their continuing responsiveness and sustainability, and to the extent
practicable and feasible, shall be upgraded to be at par with the current scale enjoyed by those in
actual service
SEC. 4. PRIVILEGES FOR THE SENIOR CITIZENS
THE SENIOR CITIZENS SHALL BE ENTITLED TO THE
FOLLOWING:
• To the extent possible, the government may grant special discounts in special programs
for senior citizens on purchase of basic commodities, subject to the guidelines to be
issued for the purpose by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and the Department
of Agriculture (DA)
• provision of express lanes for senior citizens in all commercial and government
establishments; in the absence thereof, priority shall be given to them
• Death benefit assistance of a minimum of Two thousand pesos (Php2, 000.00) shall be
given to the nearest surviving relative of a deceased senior citizen which amount shall be
subject to adjustments due to inflation in accordance with the guidelines to be issued by
the DSWD.
IN THE AVAILMENT OF THE PRIVILEGES MENTIONED ABOVE, THE SENIOR CITIZEN, OR HIS/HER
DULY AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE, MAY SUBMIT AS PROOF OF HIS/HER ENTITLED THERETO ANY
OF THE FOLLOWING:
• An identification card issued by the Office of the Senior Citizen Affairs (OSCA) of the
place where the senior citizen resides
• The passport of the senior citizen concerned; and
• Other documents that establish that the senior citizen is a citizen of the Republic and is at
least sixty (60) years of age as further provided in the implementing rules and regulations.
In the purchase of goods and services which are on promotional discount, the
senior citizen can avail of the promotional discount or the discount provided
herein, whichever is higher.
SEC. 5. GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE
THE GOVERNMENT SHALL PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING:
• Employment
• Senior citizens who have the capacity and desire to work, or be re-employed, shall
be provided information and matching services to enable them to be productive
members of society.
• Education
• The DepED, TESDA and the CHED, in consultation with NGOs and people’s
organizations (POs) for senior citizens, shall institute programs that will ensure
access to formal and nonformal education.
• Health
• The DOH, in coordination with LGUs, NGOs and POs for senior citizens, shall
institute a national health program and shall provide an integrated health service
for senior citizens.
REPUBLIC ACT
9165: REVISED
DANGEROUS
DRUGS LAW
REPUBLIC ACT 9165: REVISED DANGEROUS DRUGS LAW