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Hi Everyone :)

Hope your all having a good day. Just wondering if I could have a little help. I need to write a scenario to hand in before I write a 4000 word essay. I need to write about a legal & professional issue seen in practice. Then bring in case laws, accountability etc to complete essay. Its very difficult to come across a dilema in practice.

What I have come up with so far is doing essay on consent and capacity:

A patient has come in for emergency surgery and did not get consented prior to this. Reasons why maybe nurses wernt educated enough on capacity because patient may not have had the capacity to consent. Or maybe patient might have had an advocate.

I think the scenario may need more info, what do you think? Thanks

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anyone? please? :)

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Specializes in Surgical, quality,management.

not the nurses responsibility to get consent it is the doctors.

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ok thanks

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Specializes in Advanced Practice, surgery.

You could look at consent and capacity to consent to nursing interventions. Maybe looking at elderly alzhiemers patients acutely unwell requiring treatments but unco-operative with interventions. This could look at quality of life issues as well and maybe discuss at which point treatment becomes abuse in these patients

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