Nursing Law and Ethics

ethics 127±8, 192, 214±17
outside MHA 169
personality disorder sufferers 192
underMHA109±11,162±3,170,179±80
regulation
clinical research 254±61, 271
professionalseeprofessional regulation
relativism, moral 280
religious belief, and treatment refusal 104,
105, 106±7, 127
children 199
critically ill adult 204, 205
rights±duties balance 216, 217
resipsaloquitur 86
researchseeclinical research
research ethics committees 261±3, 267
resource constraints
ethical perspective 150±57
hit-and-runcasestudy142±4,152±4,157
legal perspective 131±3
accidents and emergencies 142±4,
152±3
critically ill patients 195
direct liability 140±42
inexperienced staff 133±4
personal fault 138±9
precautions and risk 134±5
professional responsibility 144±8
staff shortages 136±7
vicarious liability 139±42
publicdisclosure144±7,148,154±5,157
resuscitation policy 203
rightsseehuman rights; patient
empowerment
risk
clinical governance 70, 229±31, 247,
248±9
negligence
consent issues 112±13, 115±16, 117
ethical perspective 90, 92, 248
resource problems 134±5, 153

scarce resourcesseeresource constraints
seclusion, mental health nursing 176±7,
186±7
Second Opinion Approved Doctors
2SOADs) 163±4, 165±6
secondary legislation 4
self-regulation, professional 236, 249±50
medicine 35±6
nursing 36, 37±8, 39

sex discrimination 15±16

sex drive, hormone implants 166, 167

sick nursing, ethical shift 20

special damages 84±5

staff shortages 136±7

stakeholder regulation 41, 44±5

standard setting

clinical governance 240, 241±5

personal 28±9

standards of care 15, 33

ethical perspective 91, 93, 152±4, 157

hit-and-run case study 142±4, 152±4,

157

legal perspective 77±9, 80, 131±3

accidents and emergencies 142±4,

152±3

inexperience 133±4

mental health nursing 190

personal fault 138±9

precautions and risk 134±5

public disclosure of 144±7, 148, 249

staff shortages 136±7

near-miss reporting 248±9

professional codesseeCode of Practice;

Code of Professional Conduct

statute law 3±6, 14±15

seealsoTable of Statutes

stress-related industrial illness 16

structured settlements 86

suffering, damages for 84

supervision, clinical research 283

supervision orders 179

supportive role, consenting process 129

teams

clinical research 283, 284

ethical duty of care 94±5

multidisciplinary 226

teenagers, critical illness 200±202

tissue, clinical research 260±61, 269±71

tort, law of 6

battery 103, 104

negligence 6, 75

transplants, between species 269±71

tribunals 9±10

unborn babiesseefetuses

United Kingdom Central Council for

Nursing, Midwifery and Health

Visiting 2UKCC) 15, 31

challenges to 37±8

Index 303