Nursing Law and Ethics

Index

Abbreviations used in the index are: CHI = Commission for Health Improvement; ECT =
electro-convulsive therapy; EU = European Union; MHA = Mental Health Act 1983; NICE =
National Institute for Clinical Excellence; UKCC = United Kingdom Central Council for
Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting

accident and emergency services 142±4,
152±4, 157
accidents, duty of care 94, 143, 153
accountability
corporate 226±7
personal 96±7
researchers 264
Acts of Parliament 2statute law) 3±6, 14±15
seealsoTable of Statutes
advance directives 125, 170, 204±6, 208,
217±18
adverse events, reporting 248±9
advocacy 116±18, 129, 181, 285
aggressive patients 175±7, 186±7
AIDS, clinical research 268
amenity, damages for loss of 84
anorexia nervosa 162, 201
autonomy 22±3, 122±4
clinical research 284, 285
consent 121, 124±6, 127±8, 213, 283±4
mental health nursing 186, 188, 191
principle 25, 155
teenagers 201

babies
critical illness 195±200
unbornseefetuses
battery 103, 104, 255
beneficence 25, 91, 155, 284
best interests test 107±8, 169±70, 171±2,
196±7, 204, 266

Bolamtest 18, 77±9, 80

civil law liability negligence 112, 115

clinical research 266

pregnant women refusing care 107

standards of care 131±2, 133, 134

breach of duty 76, 77±80, 131±3

Bristol Royal Infirmary tragedy 50

Final Report 46, 114±16

caesarean sections 102, 105±11, 162±3,

205, 216

capacity to consent 101±3

advance directives 125, 170, 204±6, 208,

217±18

and autonomy 124±5, 170

bestinterests107±8,169±70,171±2,196,

204, 266

critical illness 196, 200, 202±8, 214±16

incapacity 101±3, 105±8, 118, 169±72,

187±8

clinical research 265±6, 284

critical illness 204±8, 214±16

outside MHA 118, 167±72

overruling a refusal 105, 109±10

under MHA 109±11, 165±6, 187±8

cardiopulmonary resuscitation 203

care, duty of 76±7, 219±20

breach 76, 77±80, 131±3

ethical 90, 94±6

hit-and-run case 143, 153

Catholics, treatment consent 127