Legal protection for nurses in certain limited circumstances

The uneven distribution of health workers throughout Indonesia and the quality of health workers still need to be improved in various ways, especially in the field of nursing, thus the problem of developing health human resources and legal protection is one of the priorities. The main role of nurses in society is as providers of nursing care, nurses can provide nursing services directly and indirectly to clients, using the nursing process approach in general circumstances and certain limited circumstances. This background results in the formulation of problems in the form of arrangements regarding the role of nurses in certain limited circumstances and legal protection for nurses in certain limited circumstances. The method used in this research is the normative legal method. The purpose of the study was to determine the regulation of the role of nurses in certain limited circumstances and legal protection for nurses in certain limited circumstances. It can be concluded that the main and most highlighted role of nurses and known by the public is as a perpetrator/provider of nursing care, nurses can provide nursing services directly and indirectly to clients and government legal protection against nurses in the form of preventive legal protection and repressive legal protection.