Clients also have various specific
rights, including
ACTIVE LEARNING TEMPLATE: Basic Concept the following.
1. Informed consent and the
right to refuse treatment,
confidentiality.
STUDENT NAME __________Tabitha Daboni___________________________ 2. A written plan of
CONCEPT ____Legal and Ethical Issues: Client rights on a Mental Health unit _______ REVIEW MODULE CHAPT care/treatment that
includes discharge
follow-up, as well as
participation in the care
Related Content Underlying Principles plan and review of that
(E.G., DELEGATION, plan
LEVELS OF PREVENTION, 3. Communication with
ADVANCE DIRECTIVES) people outside the mental
Clients who have a mental
health disorder diagnosis or health facility, including
In comparison to laws, family members,
statutes, and regulations who are receiving acute care attorneys, and other
(enacted by local, state, or for mental health disorder health care professionals
federal government), are guaranteed the same civil 4. Provision of adequate
ethical issues are philosophical rights as any other citizen. interpretive services if
ideas regarding right and These include the following. needed
wrong. Nurses are frequently 5. Care provided with
1. The right to humane respect, dignity, and
confronted with ethical
treatment and care, without discrimination
dilemmas regarding client care
(bioethical issues). Because such as medical and 6. Freedom from harm
dental care. related to physical or
ethics are philosophical and pharmacological restraint,
involve values and morals, 2. The right to vote
seclusion, and any
there is frequently no 3. The rights related to physical or mental abuse
clear-cut, simple resolution to granting, forfeiture, or or neglect
an ethical dilemma. The nurse denial of a driver’s 7. A psychiatric advance
must use ethical principles to license directive that includes the
decide ethical 4. The right to due client’s treatment
issues preferences in the event
process of law, that an involuntary
including the right to admission is necessary
press legal charges 8. Provision of care with the
against another person. least restrictive
interventions necessary to
meet the client’s needs
without allowing him to
be a threat to himself or
others.
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