Nurses for Human Rights

Newsblog Pharmalot reports that New Jersey has passed an informed consent bill that requires any persons under 18 to be given full informed consent before being prescribed or administered psychotropic medications with black box warnings. You can view this bill in pdf here ( New Jersey’s Informed Consent Bill ) and also from the Pharmalot site.

This includes any nurse practitioner who prescribes a medication that has a black box warning and this bill makes them liable in a court of law should they not perform informed consent. This bill should be applauded by nurses everywhere and hopefully this trend will spread nationally. Physicians, psychologists and Nurse Practitioners will all be subject to disciplinary actions by their States Board of Nursing or Medical Board of Examiners.

Sign this petition and lets get this enacted across the US:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/NrseCall2Arms/

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