Legal aspects of consent 22: nurses' position when obtaining consent.
Case scenario: staff nurse Fawn was asked to take on the role of getting the patients to sign the consent forms before surgery was carried out. She was concerned at the legality of her being asked to undertake this since she would not be carrying out the operations. What is the law?
Dimond
Bridgit
B
University of Glamorgan, UK.
D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D006113:United Kingdom