Practical Nursing PNH401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sleep Hygiene, Constipation, Lanugo
27 Feb 2018
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+ the health care consent act sets out the rules for making decisions about treatment. when you are capable of making decisions about your treatment. + you have the right to make a decision about your treatment if you are capable of doing so. A voluntary patient is a person who is staying in a psychiatric facility of his or her own free will. An involuntary patient is held in a psychiatric facility under a certificate of involuntary admission. Gives authority, subject to the rules of the mha to detain, restrain and examine a patient in a schedule 1 facility. Refers to a patient found incapable with respect to a proposed treatment and had been admitted to a hospital or psychiatric facility with the consent of a the person authorized to make his or her treatment decisions. Within seven days from and including the examination date. Within 72 hours from start of detention period under a.
