Legalities and Ethnics in Critical Care Areas

Question	Answer
Ethical principles	autonomy beneficence non-malfience distributive justive dignity truthfulness
Code of ethics for nurses	NMBA
Consent to medical treatment and palliative care act 1995	cannot be used if pt in terminal phase of illness - if pt has not expressed direction - if treatment is not life proloning
Brain death	death of whole brain and brain stem irrevisble brain damage causing independent respiration
Organ donation	Patient must be brain dead Patient must have consented
Role of crit care nursse	early identification collaborative team clinical management family support
Terminal sedation	sedating 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 about 6 years ago