Giving medicinal information to mentally capacitated patients.
Roy was advised that a new drug which had just come on the market would assist his chronic depression. He was not given any further information, but after taking it for a few days found that it had a strong effect on his personality and he became aggressive and violent. As a consequence of a fight at work he lost his job and now claims that had he known of these effects he would not have taken the new drug.
Dimond
Bridgit
B
University of Glamorgan.
D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000451:nursing*; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D006801:Humans; D008318:Malpractice / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D016743:Mental Competency / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D006113:United Kingdom