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The Legal Framework for Working with Young People for Paediatrics professionals
Speciality
Paediatrics General
Location
Online
Delivery
Online
Time / Duration
30 minutes
Subject matter expert
e-Learning for Healthcare
Provider
eIntegrity
Endorsed By
Healthy Child, eLH, NHS
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.
Programs this course belongs to
Modules this course belongs to
Instructors / Speakers
Aidan Macfarlane,
MA (Oxon), MA (Cantab), MB, BChir, FRCP, FRCPCH, FFPHM
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.
Certificate
Title
The Legal Framework for Working with Young People for Paediatrics professionals
Speciality
Interest Areas / Topics Covered
Children and young peoples health, Health Policy, Legal
Provider Type
Education Provider
Time / Duration
30 minutes
Location
Online
Posted By
eIntegrity Healthcare e-Learning
Reference
03_001
Access Duration (in months)
12
Price:
$19.00
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