Category: Consent

Medical Ethics: A Reference Guide for Guaranteeing Principled Care and Quality

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Frezza EE
Pages: 236p.
Format: EPUB
Publisher: Productivity Press, (24 Oct. 2018)
eISBN-13: 978-1138581074

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in scientific research. Medical ethics allow for people, regardless of background, to be guaranteed quality and principled care. It is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. These values include the respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence, and justice. These tenets allow doctors, care providers, and families to create a treatment plan and work towards the same common goal without any conflict.

Succeeding in the healthcare field means more than just making a diagnosis and writing a prescription. Healthcare professionals are responsible for convincing patients and their family members of the best course of action and treatments to follow, while knowing how to make the right moral and ethical choices. Ethical teaching should be an active part of training and should be taught in four division: basic ethics, clinical ethics, legal principles related to ethics and the ethics of research and affiliation. This book is a reference guide for physicians, healthcare providers and administrative staff. It looks at the ethical problems they face every day, gives the background and the ethical problem and then provides practical advice which can be easily implemented. This book provides the knowledge needed to understand who has the right to healthcare, the justice of clinical practice, what autonomy means for a patient giving consent, who is going to make any surrogate decisions and more.

Medical ethics Today: The BMA’s Handbook of Ethics and Law, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: British Medical Association
Pages: 956p.
Format: PDF
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons,n (23 Feb. 2012)
eISBN-13: 978-1444337082

This is your source for authoritative and comprehensive guidance from the British Medical Association (BMA) Medical Ethics Department covering both routine and highly contentious medico-legal issues faced by health care professionals. The new edition updates the information from both the legal and ethical perspectives and reflects developments surrounding The Mental Capacity Act, Human Tissue Act, and revision of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act.

Fundamentals of Care: A Textbook for Health and Social Care Assistants

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Peate I
Pages: 265p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 3 Mar. 2017
eISBN-13: 978-1119212201

Fundamentals of Care is an accessible introductory textbook for all health care assistants; assistant practitioners and social care support workers who are undertaking the newly introduced, mandatory Care Certificate, as well as offering a resource for providing care and support. Practically focused, each chapter begins with the outcomes associated with each standard, which helps contextualise and focus the reader on the content and relevance to the Care Certificate. The book also includes exercises to encourage the reader to stop, look, listen and act, thinking cap activity promotes further thinking and application to care and support provision along with case studies and resource files. Written to help the reader come to terms with the role and function of the heath and care assistants, Fundamentals of Care offers support to those undertaking the Care Certificate and to assist those who already work as health and care assistants, helping them in their quest to enhance safe and effective care.

Dimond’s Legal Aspects of Nursing: A Definitive Guide to Law for Nurses, 8th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Griffith R and Dowie I
Pages: 800p.
Format: Epub
Publisher: Pearson, 3 Jun. 2019
eISBN-13: 978-1292245379

Written specifically for student nurses as well as those already in practice, Dimond’s Legal Aspects of Nursing is your essential practical guide to the legal principles you need to be aware of in your everyday nursing practice.

Building on previous editions of the book by Bridgit Dimond, this 8th edition has been significantly reworked by a new author team with extensive experience in teaching nursing law. It has also been fully updated and revised in line with recent legal developments and the new Nursing standards to ensure it continues to meet the requirements of nursing law modules.

New to this edition:

  • Introduction of new and updated Nursing Midwifery Council (NMC) Fitness to Practise procedures
  • Reference to the NMC Code 2015 (updated 2018) including Duty of candour
  • Data Protection legislation updated including reference to the General Data Protection Regulation 2016
  • Greater reference to the devolved UK administrations
  • Updated overview of a nurses’ duty of care
  • Reference to the new NMC approved curriculum, and the introduction of nursing associates
  • Introduction of upcoming changes to the Mental Capacity Act 2005
  • Comprehensive discussion of the practice implications of the Supreme Court Decisions in Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015]
  • Consideration of the revised Health and Social Care Act 2008 (regulated activities) regulations 2014
  • Updated consideration of gross negligence manslaughter
  • Practical implications of the extension of the crimes of ill treatment and willful neglect under the Criminal Justice and Courts Act 2015 section 20 and 21

 

Quick Guide to Good Clinical Practice: How to Meet International Quality Standard in Clinical Research

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Cingi, Cemal and Muluk, Nuray Bayar Pages: 243 Size: 1.18 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag Published: 01 January, 2017
eISBN-13: 9783319443447

This brand-new book offers a reference guide to understanding and applying the rules for properly conducting clinical trials to meet the international quality standard – Good Clinical Practice – provided by the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH). The work offers an updated perspective on the clinical research landscape within the context of the clinical trial regulatory frameworks in Europe and the USA. In addition to providing a historical review and a detailed definition of GPC regulations, it includes step-by-step explanations of all the requirements that researchers should bear in mind when designing and performing new trials. Further topics covered include: ethics of clinical research; the drug development process and evolution of regulations; investigator and sponsor responsibilities; and clinical trial protocols. Written by clinicians for clinicians, the book represents a valuable read also for researchers, pharmacists and all professionals involved in applications to the ethic committees, whose approval is required for new clinical studies.

Palliative Care Nursing at a Glance

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Christine Ingleton, Philip Larkin. Pages: 152 Size: 16.81 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 16 November, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781118759202

Palliative Care Nursing at a Glance is the perfect companion for nursing students, health and social care practitioners, and all those involved in palliative care delivery, both in the clinical and home setting. Written by an expert team of academics, nurses, educators and researchers it provides a concise and easy-to-read overview of all the concepts and clinical decision-making skills necessary for the provision of good-quality palliative and end-of-life care. Divided into six sections, the book includes coverage of all key clinical applications, principles of symptom management, palliative care approaches for a range of conditions and patient groups, exploration of the roles of the multi-professional team, as well as ethical challenges.

  • Superbly illustrated, with full colour illustrations throughout
  • Provides information on delivery of care in a range of settings
  • Broad coverage makes it ideal reading for anyone involved in palliative care delivery
  • User-friendly and accessible resource for those working in both specialist and non-specialist adult settings

Palliative Care Nursing: Quality Care At The End of Life, 5th ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 1,476 Size: 18.4 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: 28 June, 2018
eISBN-13: 978082612719

The fifth edition of this seminal reference and text in palliative care nursing helps the practitioner and student offer comprehensive, targeted interventions responsive to the needs of palliative and hospice patients and families. Based on the best level of evidence available, reference to clinical practice guidelines, and palliative care order sets to address critical symptoms, the knowledge presented in this edition supports compassionate, timely, appropriate and cost-effective care to achieve quality health outcomes for diverse palliative care populations across the illness trajectory. Noteworthy features of the new edition include broadening population health management by helping the reader to identify patterns and connections within and across population and utilize information to respond to the needs of populations. This strategy allows the reader to apply strategies that are consistent with IHI’s Triple Aim that includes Improving the patient experience of care, Improving the health of populations and reducing the per capita cost of health care. Every Chapter in Sections 1, 2, and 3 includes an Evidence Based Box with a current study including a commentary written by someone from a discipline other than nursing or by an interdisciplinary team

Palliative Care, 2nd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Christina Faull And Kerry Blankley. Pages: 169 Size: 3.45 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Oup Oxford
Published: 19 March, 2015
eISBN-13: 9780191006791

The care of patients with advanced and terminal illness can be extremely rewarding but often causes professionals a considerable amount of discomfort. This is especially so when you feel under confident in your abilities to provide a high quality of symptom management and relief from distress and to communicate appropriately with patients. Patients with advanced disease present some of the most challenging ethical, physical, psychological and social issues to clinicians and indeed to society. Patients need us to be knowledgeable, skilful and understanding. The fully revised and updated new edition of Palliative Care outlines the fundamental principles and facts which will enable you to make a very real difference to your patients and their families. Information is provided in an accessible, user-friendly way and covers a wide range of physical and non-physical symptom management. Multi-professional team work is addressed, as is the role and support of families. There is also a consideration of the dilemmas and decisions that may be encountered by doctors around the end of a patient’s life. This practical resource, designed to provoke contemplative professional development, and enhance learning will be essential reading for nursing and medical practitioners, and other professionals who support patients in their homes, in care homes, and in hospital.

Care at the End of Life

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Jeff Round. Pages: 210 Size: 1.54 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Springer Verlag
Published: 01 January, 2016
eISBN-13: 9783319282671

This work carefully guides the reader through the methodological, policy and ethical challenges facing health economists conducting research in palliative care. It has collected the opinions of many cutting-edge researchers. Those who design and conduct economic evaluations or economics-related research in end of life populations will find this book thought provoking, instructive and informative. The provision of care to individuals with disorders associated with advancing age, such as cancer and dementia, is an increasing concern amongst policy makers and providers of health and social care. Accordingly, the burden on state and private funders in providing care to patients with these complex illnesses is of growing importance to health economists. However, answering the questions raised by the research community on end of life and palliative care health economics has received little attention. The authors shed light on many questions including: Are economic evaluation methods fit for purpose in patients at the end of life? What is the best way to measure and value health outcomes in this population? What are the appropriate societal rules to govern resource allocation for people at the end of life? Are these people more or less deserving of resources than other patients? Does age matter? How can we define a good death for the purposes of resource allocation decision making? What ethics govern research in end of life patients?

Handbook of Surgical Consent

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Rajesh Nair and David J. Holroyd
Format: Webpage Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Print ISBN-13: 9780199595587
DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199595587.001.0001

This valuable tool, written by experts, offers practical guidance in the principles of consent, alongside procedure-specific information on risks and benefits

Fundamentals of Care: A Textbook for Health and Social Care Assistants

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Ian Peate.
Pages: 283 Size: 4.59 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 23 February, 2017
eISBN-13: 9781119212218

Fundamentals of Care is an accessible introductory textbook for all health care assistants; assistant practitioners and social care support workers who are undertaking the newly introduced, mandatory Care Certificate, as well as offering a resource for providing care and support.

Practically focused, each chapter begins with the outcomes associated with each standard, which helps contextualise and focus the reader on the content and relevance to the Care Certificate. The book also includes exercises to encourage the reader to stop, look, listen and act, thinking cap activity promotes further thinking and application to care and support provision along with case studies and resource files.

Written to help the reader come to terms with the role and function of the heath and care assistants, Fundamentals of Care offers support to those undertaking the Care Certificate.

Legal Aspects of Nursing

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Bridgit Dimond.
Pages: 865 Size: 6.55 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Pearson Education M.U.A.
Published: 31 March, 2015
eISBN-13: 9781292001852

Now in its seventh edition, Bridgit Dimond`s Legal Aspects of Nursing is the definitive guide to the essential law that nurses and healthcare professionals need to know. Written in an engaging style, the book shows the application of the law to everyday nursing situations showing the relevance and importance of legal considerations to nursing practice. The book covers the legal system and legal issues relating to medicine in general, before examining more specific areas, such as children and the elderly.

A Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005: principles in practice

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Matthew Graham And Jakki Cowley.
Pages: 194 Size: 1,020 KB Format: PDF Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 21 May, 2015
eISBN-13: 9780857009401

This book provides a theory-to-practice breakdown of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 and what its implications are for health and social care workers. Informative and accessible, it provides a clear depiction of the ethos behind the Act and offers instruction for its effective, lawful and person-centred application. This practical guide describes how to assess capacity and what a good assessment of capacity should look like, how to deal with conflicts and dilemmas, and the role of legal authority in decision-making. A Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 is an invaluable resource for any health and social care professionals working with individuals who lack decision-making capacity.