The Legal Framework for Working with Young People for Nurses
This session is an introduction to professional, legal and ethical issues concerning young people and their health.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Identify the major professional, legal and ethical issues concerning adolescents
- State the legal ages at which young people can participate in various activities
- Explain why legal ages at which young people can participate in various activities exist
In regard to adolescence there are a number of professional, legal and ethical issues. They are:
- Professional codes - concern standards of conduct that professionals must adopt in their care of adolescents
- Relevant legal considerations - relate to adolescent capacity to consent to medical treatment, assessment of that capacity, the legal duty of confidentiality and legal protection from maltreatment
- Ethical considerations - to grant young people as much self determination of their own affairs as they are capable of versus the need to protect them
- Relevant legal ages - at which young people deemed to have capacity to undertake activities
This session represents a brief introduction to the above issues though many of them are dealt in greater depth in the follow-on sessions in this module.
Dr Macfarlane is an international freelance specialist in the strategic planning and delivery of maternal, child and adolescent health services, prison services and paediatric hospital services. He is the author of 20 books (including 8 specifically for young people), 18 chapters and 38 refereed papers.
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