Legal Aspects of Nursing

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It is a truism that every elderly person is different. The fact that a person is over 60 or 70 or 80 or 90 says absolutely nothing else about them. Standards of health, loneliness, housing, finance, mobility and capability are as varied as with any other age group. All that can be said of them as a group is that it is more likely than not that they will be faced with some problems: social, economic, health or others and that these are more likely to be multiple problems, interrelated, with one triggering oft another.. It is equally true that... there are no basic principles of law purely for geriatric patients... the general principles of negligence and vicarious liability apply equally to the nurse who cares for elderly people. However, there are particular difficulties w'hich the... nurse is... likely to encounter... and it is to these that we now turn. In this section particular attention will be paid to...: •Consent to treatment•Force, restraint, and assault•Medication and the confused elderly patient•Resistance to rehabilitation•Standard of care.

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