Nursing Law and Ethics

Bland,courts have struggled to fit the clinical aspects of cases into the guidelines' framework. In Frenchay NHS Trustv. S41994) ...

treatment could be withheld from R at the point where his life became `so afflicted as to be intolerable'. Proposed intervention ...

uncertainty, is highlighted. As this chapter has shown, the law's response has been twofold. The basic framework of principles w ...

Royal College of Physicians 41996) The permanent vegetative state.J. Roy. Coll. Physi- cians,30, 119±121. British Medical Assoc ...

BAnEthical Perspective ± Declining and Withdrawing Treatment Robert Campbell What does it mean for a patient to be critically il ...

consent must be genuine, i.e. unforced. I ask you to give me your autograph and yo usign the bottom of a blank sheet of paper. I ...

how much pain or discomfort may be discounted against future benefit, lie outside that area of expertise. The expertise in these ...

that I must have the opportunity to decide whether to accept the treatment offered even though others may feel that I am wrong i ...

classes of people for whom consent is problematic, not in specific cases but in general. These are people who, in legal terminol ...

desperate attempt to wish the circumstances other than they actually were. Most religious beliefs do form a system, they are sha ...

saving treatment and the rights of the unborn child which must have some moral force even if not normally recognised in English ...

in the interval between drawing up the will and it coming into operation. Someone who anticipates that they would rather be allo ...

`The distinction between deliberate killing and the administration of painkilling drugs or the withdrawal of treatment such as t ...

authority [20], this duty can arise either through a contract, a special relationship such as parent and child or doctor and pa ...

continuing to see their son in this exceptionally distressing condition and would, finally, be able to mourn the loss they had s ...

this would probably lead to his death. This distinction may have no practical consequences in those two actual cases, given that ...

5.State of Tennessee Dept of Human Servicesv.Mary C. Northern, C.A. Tennessee, Middle Section,7Feb. 1978; cited in John Arras an ...

Chapter 11 Clinical Governance A The Legal Perspective Jo Wilson The main purpose of health care delivery is to secure, through ...

`The Government will require every NHS Trust to embrace the concept of clinical governance, so that quality is at the core, both ...

Any framework for clinical quality must be amenable to monitoring and assurance of compliance with the policies of the health ca ...