Right Thing To Do Flashcards
Which Act allows health care professionals to provide necessary care if the adult lacks capacity?
Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000
Define utility?
State of being useful
i.e. is the treatment useful for this patient
Define futile?
Incapable of producing any useful results
Doctors have no obligation to provide treatment they judge as futile.
Define palliation?
Type of treatment for those with terminal illness
Care that makes them feel better but does not cure them or holt the disease
Symptom management
Define paternalism?
Thinking or behaviour of doctors that results in them making decisions for the patient, although they may be to the patients advantage, prevent them from taking responsibility for their own lives
Only if the patient has capacity
Define personhood?
The quality or condition of being an individual person
Define capacity?
Power to act
Including making our own decisions according to our own reasoning, the ability to communicate our decisions, having understood the implications of our decisions and retaining the memory of our decision.
Who holds capacity?
Presumed in adults unless sufficient reason to call this to question.
Held by a person at the age of 16 (scotland)
Children younger can be judged to have capacity, depending on the individual.
It may fluctate- needs to be constantly assessed
What are the 5 criteria a patient must have to have capacity?
- Power to act
- To make a reasoned decision
- To communicate the decision
- To understand the decision
- To retain memory of that decision
Define autonomy?
Self-determination
Patients engagement in their own decision making, particularly when it comes to health related.
Respect for a persons autonomy
Define consent?
Medical procedure
It is the authorisation given by a patient who has capacity.
Requires 5 points to make the consent lawful and valid
What are the 5 criteria to make a consent of the patient lawful?
- The patient has capacity
- Fully informed
- Voluntary
- No coerced
- Not manipulated
What is the legal framework in the UK for abortions?
Abortion Act 1967
Name one of the following grounds for abortion?
Pregnancy has not exceeded 24th weeks
Continuance of the pregnancy involve risk, greater than if the pregnancy were terminatedm of injury to the physical or mental health of the pregnant women
Does women have the legal right to terminate a pregnancy?
No- indicated in the Abortion Act 1967
Has to satisfy one of the grounds to terminate
