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Legalities and Ethnics in Critical Care Areas
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- 1Ethical principlesautonomy
beneficence
non-malfience
distributive justive
dignity
truthfulness - 2Code of ethics for nursesNMBA
- 3Consent to medical treatment and palliative care act 1995cannot be used if pt in terminal phase of illness
- if pt has not expressed direction
- if treatment is not life proloning - 4Brain deathdeath of whole brain and brain stem
irrevisble brain damage causing independent respiration - 5Organ donationPatient must be brain dead
Patient must have consented - 6Role of crit care nursseearly identification
collaborative team
clinical management
family support - 7Terminal sedationsedating a terminally ill competent patient to the point of unconsciousness, then allowing them to die of the disease, starvation, dehydration
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- Created by Elizabeth Then · Aug 29, 2018
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