Nursing Law and Ethics

courts do not have the jurisdiction to declare medical intervention lawful and the question of her own best interests objectivel ...

doctors are concerned with a person unable to make the necessary decision for himself.' [38] These observations of Lady Butler S ...

not to continue with it. This is a difficult issue which may need to be considered in depth on another occasion.' [41] One of th ...

High Court for a declaration to the effect that it would be lawful to undertake treatment ,including a caesarean section. Meanwh ...

Thus the courts have affirmed that for treatment to be lawful under section 63 it must be crucial to the mental disorder. While ...

must have some appreciation of the risks that the medical procedure in question may go wrong. If a patient is not informed of th ...

medicine. The risks disclosed must be reasonably foreseeable. Lord Templeman distinguished between general risks which would nor ...

While in the majority of cases ,providing a patient with information about her treatment can be seen as a positive step enhancin ...

The report recommends that: Patients must be given such information as enables them to participate in their care'. It suggests p ...

aReference Guide to Consent for Examination and Treatment' 2001 and new model consent forms. The Government in their response to ...

The nurse must ensure that sufficient information has been given in terms readily understandable to the patient so as to enable ...

7.4 Conclusions The nurse must confront the same difficult questions of disclosure as her medical counterpart when treating the ...

GMC ?1997)Serious Communicable Diseases.General Medical Council ,London. See generally M. Gunn ?1994) The meaning of incapacity ...

decision makers.CLJ380 ,and Law Commission ?1995)Mental Incapacity.The Sta- tionery Office ,London. See also nowRe SL Adult Pat ...

BAnEthical Perspective ± Consent and Patient Autonomy Bobbie Farsides Consent is a moral and legal cornerstone of contemporary h ...

7.6 Voluntariness, coercion and consent Consent, Gillon tells us, is a `voluntary and un-coerced decision'. By making this expli ...

some cultural, and some to do with the success of particular models of analysis within bioethics. In the latter part of the twen ...

one can only enjoy full autonomy if the choices one makes are completely unaffected by others. However, this is not the only way ...

underlying illness affects a person's autonomy, but the fact that it is an illness rather than a chosen way of life will be seen ...

7.7.3 Sufficient information As clearly stated in Gillon's definition, the moral and legal requirement to acquire consent commit ...