Legal accountability aspects of medical actions performed by nurses based on delegated authority in the perspective of the principle of legal equality as an element of the rule of law

According to Article 290 of Law Number 17 of 2023 concerning Health, medical personnel can delegate authority to nurses to perform actions. The delegation of authority is accompanied by the delegation of responsibility and legal risks for the implementation of the medical action. The principle of delegation and responsibility for the implementation of medical actions carried out by nurses based on the delegation of authority gives rise to the following problems. First, is the principle of legal accountability for medical actions carried out by nurses based on delegation as a way of delegating authority from medical personnel to nurses regulated in laws and regulations in accordance with the principle of equality before the law as an element of the rule of law? Second, how is the legal construction of the principle of legal accountability for medical actions carried out by nurses based on delegation in accordance with the principle of equality before the law as an element of the rule of law? The legal research method used in the study is the juridical-normative research method.