Legal Rights and Duties in Medical and Nursing Service

Rights and Duties

Mental Health Nursing, Mechanical Restraint Measures and Patients’ Legal Rights

Coercive mechanical restraint (MR) in psychiatry constitutes the perhaps most extensive exception from the common health law requirement for involving patients in health care decisions and achieving their informed consent prior to treatment. Coercive measures and particularly MR seriously collide with patient autonomy principles, pose a particular challenge to psychiatric patients' legal rights...

Rights, Duties and Commitments between Agents

In this paper we introduce a multi agent de-ontic update semantics, that builds on a logic of prescriptive obligations (norms) and a logic of descriptive obligations (normative propositions). In this preference-based logic we formalize rights as a new type of strong prescriptive permissions and duties and commitments as prescriptive obligations between agents. 1 Introduction In groups of agents...

Rights, Duties, HIV/AIDS and Corrections

Comparing Patients’ and Nurses’ Expectations of Nursing service and Medical Cares in Alzahra Teaching Hospital in Isfahan city

Introduction: Studying patients’ (as consumers) and nurses’ (as care providers) expectations is very important. This study aimed to determine the differences between patients and nurses’ expectations of nursing service and medical cares in Alzahra teaching hospitals in Isfahan. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Isfahan in the second half of 2011. 120 nurses and ...