Capacity & Decision-Making
When a Patient Refuses Care and Capacity Is Unc...
How to respond when a patient refuses care and their capacity is unclear, without confusing disagreement, distress or communication barriers with incapacity.
When a Patient Refuses Care and Capacity Is Unc...
How to respond when a patient refuses care and their capacity is unclear, without confusing disagreement, distress or communication barriers with incapacity.
What Happens After a Patient Is Found to Lack C...
What happens after a patient lacks capacity, including who may decide, earlier wishes, family involvement and reassessment across the UK.
What Happens After a Patient Is Found to Lack C...
What happens after a patient lacks capacity, including who may decide, earlier wishes, family involvement and reassessment across the UK.
Recording Mental Capacity Assessments Clearly
What clear capacity documentation should show, including the decision, support provided, patient responses, reasoning and next steps.
Recording Mental Capacity Assessments Clearly
What clear capacity documentation should show, including the decision, support provided, patient responses, reasoning and next steps.
Supported Decision-Making: Helping Patients Dec...
Practical ways to help patients understand information, communicate their wishes and make their own decisions wherever possible.
Supported Decision-Making: Helping Patients Dec...
Practical ways to help patients understand information, communicate their wishes and make their own decisions wherever possible.
Advance Statements in Scotland: What Student Nu...
How Scottish advance statements record a person’s mental health treatment wishes, when they apply and what happens if clinicians override them.
Advance Statements in Scotland: What Student Nu...
How Scottish advance statements record a person’s mental health treatment wishes, when they apply and what happens if clinicians override them.
Mental Capacity Explained for UK Student Nurses
Mental capacity is decision-specific and time-specific. Understand the practical approach and how the law differs across the four UK nations.
Mental Capacity Explained for UK Student Nurses
Mental capacity is decision-specific and time-specific. Understand the practical approach and how the law differs across the four UK nations.