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AWI Flashcards

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What is the AWI act’s official title and function

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Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000

  • framework for safeguarding the welfare/managing the finances of adults that lack capacity
  • protects people that lack capacity to make certain decisions but also support their involvement in making decisions about their own lives as far as they’re able to do so
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What 2 things must consent be

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Legal & Valid

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3
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What makes consent valid (3)

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  • remains current still
  • specific to proposed dental treatment
  • was obtained recently
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Principles of legal consent (3)

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  • ability: to make informed decision
  • informed:enough info to make decision
  • voluntary: patient has made decision
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5
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5 principles of Capacity

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  • to act
  • to make a reasoned decision
  • retain memory of decision
  • to understand a decision
  • to communicate a decision
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what are material risks

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a reasonable person, if warned of these risks, would be likely to attach significance to these.

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Consent must be…(6)

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  • not coerced
  • not manipulated
  • valid
  • voluntary
  • informed
  • with capacity
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5 principles of the Adults with Incapacity (scotland) Act 2000

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  • benefit to the adult
  • minimum intervention
  • takes into consideration past/present wishes of adult
  • consultation with adult and others
  • adult exercise residual capacity
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name some ways to asses capacity (what the patient should be able to do)

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  • capable of making/communicating a choice
  • undestand nature of what is asked/why
  • aware of risks/benefits and alternatives
  • aware of right to refuse treatment
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Explain the AWI principle:

1. Benefit

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  • any treatment must benefit patient
  • without treatment benefit would not happen
  • any intervention must enhance/improve life
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Explain AWI principle:

2. Minimum intervention

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-treatment should be least restrictive option
-avoid invasive treatment where poss
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Explain AWI principle:

3. Takes into consideration past/present wishes of patient

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-find out what patiet previously wanted - consult relatives/close friends

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Explain AWI principle:

4. Consultation with relevant others

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  • contact patient’s family/friends

- find out what they think patient would have wanted

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Explain AWI principles:

5. Exercise residual capacity

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-identify decisions that patient can make themselves

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15
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what is a welfare power of attorney

  • when does it come into effect
  • what should it take into acccount
  • what does it deal with
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comes into effect when patient loses capacity but is granted while patient still has capacity

  • registered with office of Public Guardian.
  • HEALTH & PERSONAL WELFARE
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16
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what does continuing power of attorney concern

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-financial/property affairs

17
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Guardianship orders

  • who appoints
  • what is required to get one
  • how long are they appointed for
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  • deals with continued management of welfare/financial matters
  • court appointed
  • 2 medical reports
  • appointed for 3 years
18
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Who can consent for dental treatment for an adult patient

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  • patient with capacity
  • welfare PoA
  • welfare guardian
  • medical/dental professional under section 47 of the AWI (scotland) Act 2000 - general authority to treat
19
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with regards to consent/capacity, what happens during an emergency situation

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The division between cases where treatment is necessary for the preservation of life or to prevent serious deterioration, urgent cases, a necessity to treat

20
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who can issue certificates of incapacity

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  • medical practitioners (GMP)
  • dental practitioners/nurses/optometrists with additional training
  • consultant in charge of patient care
21
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English equivalent for the AWI Act

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Mental Capacity Act (2005)

22
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5 Principles of the Mental Capacity Act

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  1. Person assumed to have capacity unless established doesn’t
  2. Person is not to be treated as unable to make a decision, unless all practible steps taken to help have not been successful
  3. A person is not to be treated as unable to make a decision if makes an unwise decision
  4. An act done or decision made, must be made in the person’s best interest
  5. establish if there is a way to be able to undertake the action in the least restrictive of the person’s right/freedoms.
23
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In terms of the Mental Capacity Act, what is a IMCA

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IMCA: a legal safeguard for people who lack the capacity to make specific important decisions

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