Nursing Law and Ethics
treatment) for, in effect, punitive or administrative reasons, has developed. The problem here is that it can be very difficult ...
treatment, is impaired; the cause of this is clearly sometimes physical, but it is a matter of dispute whether it is always phys ...
with growing success; but success is by no means invariable. There is thus a growing, but far from complete, understanding of wh ...
required in nursing, but also with the special obligation to be honest and non- manipulative. In this case, the obligation is cl ...
fail to remain on their medication. It is most likely that orders of the second type, which are less objectionable, will be prop ...
Once again, there seems to be no objection in principle, but some danger of abuse in practice: can the people who are really dan ...
I have made use of the papers of Professor Fulford #Warwick), with refer- ence to the importance of studying the exact words us ...
Chapter 10 The Critically Ill Patient A The Legal Perspective Linda Delany This chapter examines the legal aspects of the dilemm ...
patients, their families and the doctors, when disagreements about treatment options arise. They should not hesitate to draw on ...
proxy for his children should be investigated before his instructions are complied with. If this seems officious or embarrassing ...
time his breathing stopped. In assessing where J's best interests lay, the Court of Appeal considered the distress and hazardous ...
10.1.4 Disagreement between the family and the professional carers Where there is serious disagreement about the best course of ...
parents, it will often fall to a child patient's nurses to alert others to relevant issues and concerns. No doubt the most contr ...
hydration is in Adam's best interests. Factors which favour the proposal are the little boy's gradual decline, the very poor pro ...
10.2.2 Capacity to refuse treatment Although the principle of Gillick competence' was clearly meant to apply to all medical trea ...
Rights and Biomedicine 1997. A supplement to the European Convention on Human Rights, this second Convention resolves to take su ...
give `very careful and detailed consideration to the patient's capacity to decide' 4Re Tadult: refusal of treatment)41992)). Th ...
told that she will die unless treated with blood products, she refuses transfusion on the ground that it is against her religiou ...
Statements requesting specific treatment options should normally be respected, but cannot override professional judgements, as i ...
Article 9 of the Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine requires them merely to be taken into account': thus they need not a ...
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