Law on the Art of Healing - Ministry of Health
Law on the Art of Healing - Ministry of Health
Law on the Art of Healing - Ministry of Health
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Title II. PROFESSIONS RELATED TO THE ART OF HEALING<br />
<strong>Art</strong>icle: 11<br />
For <strong>the</strong> purposes <strong>of</strong> this law, pr<strong>of</strong>essi<strong>on</strong>s related to <strong>the</strong> art <strong>of</strong> healing shall be <strong>the</strong> nursing art<br />
and <strong>the</strong> paramedical art.<br />
Chapter 1. THE NURSING ART<br />
<strong>Art</strong>icle: 12<br />
The nursing art shall c<strong>on</strong>sist <strong>of</strong>:<br />
1) Observing and finding <strong>the</strong> patient's physical as well as psychic symptoms and reacti<strong>on</strong>s so<br />
as to c<strong>on</strong>tribute to <strong>the</strong> establishment <strong>of</strong> diagnosis by <strong>the</strong> doctor and to <strong>the</strong> applicati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
medical treatment, in order to provide <strong>the</strong> patient with <strong>the</strong> care appropriate to his health<br />
state.<br />
2) Taking care <strong>of</strong> a healthy or sick pers<strong>on</strong> with <strong>the</strong> aim <strong>of</strong> helping him/her by a sustained<br />
assistance in <strong>the</strong> accomplishment <strong>of</strong> acts relating to keeping him/her in good health,<br />
improving his health and restoring him/her to health or c<strong>on</strong>forting him in his last hour.<br />
3) Accomplishing technical medical care through measures relating to preventive and sanitary<br />
medicine.<br />
<strong>Art</strong>icle: 13<br />
No <strong>on</strong>e can practise <strong>the</strong> nursing art unless he/she is a holder <strong>of</strong> a diploma in nursing and<br />
medical assistance which has been issued to him in c<strong>on</strong>formity with legal provisi<strong>on</strong>s in force in<br />
Rwanda, or unless he/she is a holder <strong>of</strong> a foreign diploma, whose equivalent rating has legally<br />
been recognized by <strong>the</strong> Minister resp<strong>on</strong>sible for Sec<strong>on</strong>dary Educati<strong>on</strong>.<br />
Nursing school pupils can practise <strong>the</strong> nursing art during <strong>the</strong> practical training period in <strong>the</strong><br />
final years <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir studies, under <strong>the</strong> trainer's supervisi<strong>on</strong>.<br />
However, <strong>the</strong> Minister resp<strong>on</strong>sible for <strong>Health</strong> can determine <strong>the</strong> c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> exempti<strong>on</strong> for<br />
pers<strong>on</strong>s who do not fulfil <strong>the</strong> c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s provided for in first paragraph <strong>of</strong> this law.<br />
Chapter 2. THE PARAMEDICAL ART<br />
<strong>Art</strong>icle: 14<br />
For <strong>the</strong> purpose <strong>of</strong> this law, practising <strong>the</strong> pharmaceutical art shall mean usual<br />
accomplishment <strong>of</strong> auxiliary technical acts related to <strong>the</strong> establishment <strong>of</strong> diagnosis or <strong>the</strong><br />
executi<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> treatment or preventive medicine measures, by pers<strong>on</strong>s o<strong>the</strong>r than those set out<br />
in articles 4, 8, 10 and 13 <strong>of</strong> this law.<br />
A ministerial order shall determine acts which may be c<strong>on</strong>fided by physicians and pharmacists<br />
to paramedical agents under <strong>the</strong>ir c<strong>on</strong>trol and resp<strong>on</strong>sibility.
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