Nursing Law and Ethics

represents the minimum interference necessary to prevent the patient from behaving violently or being a danger to himself or oth ...

the House of Lords discussed the ability of young adults consenting to medical treatment. In the Lords' opinions, the question o ...

competent to consent to the particular treatment in question. To be involved in these various activities, therefore, a nurse nee ...

balance, as Fennell points out, between the obligation to show respect for persons that is concern for the person's welfare and ...

`A person should be regarded as without capacity if at the material time he is: . unable by reason of a mental disability to mak ...

`. whether there is a reasonable expectation of the person recovering capacity to make the decision in the reasonably foreseeabl ...

`Before using the power the nurse should assess: #a) the likely arrival time of the doctor as against the likely intention of th ...

adequately will mean the section cannot be exercised at all, or only with great difficulty. The MHA, therefore, implicitly requi ...

who are not deliberately trying to leave the ward, but who may wander out accidentally, may legitimately be deterred from leavin ...

submitted that regarding these activities as `treatment' even in the light of the very wide definition of treatment permitted by ...

more than 8 hours consecutively; or 12 hours intermittently over a period of 48 hours.' Regarding where the seclusion takes plac ...

. arrangements for identification of dangerous severely personality disordered people and assessment of risk based on agreed nat ...

issue of community treatment and produced an internal review report [59]. In addition the Royal College of Psychiatrists recomme ...

inform the supervisor in order that they may consider the options. However, how this will fit with duty of confidentiality is a ...

qualified mental health professional. In establishing whether or not to use com- pulsory powers, the professionals must be certa ...

London and Bartlett, P. & Sandland, R. #2000)Mental Health Law Policy and Practice, Blackstone Press, London. Reforming The ...

nurse were to make disclosures to the local media this would not be within the terms of the Act and no protection from victimisa ...

As it was described by David Lanham in an article of that title inCriminal Law Review1974) p. 515. See note 15. 49.Eighth Bien ...

BAnEthical Perspective ± Compulsion and Autonomy Harry Lesser In mental health nursing the same issue dominates both legal and e ...

the use of compulsion that requires a justification. There are two reasons for this: that individual autonomy is a value to be p ...