Nurses for Human Rights

Here’s where Human Rights and Patient Rights become the same. This woman was not given any alternative treatments for her condition during the consent signing, only surgery was offered. Judges rule for the plaintiff that she should have been informed of any alternative treatments that would include surgery. Today, millions of school children and their parents are not being given any alternatives to drugs when undergoing mental health screening like TeenScreen. Read this article and feel the full impact of this poor judgement by the medical personnel involved. We as nurses, should have caught this and not allowed poor consent. Patients, or their parents and families, have a right to know: http://www.theolympian.com:80/112/story/64433.html

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