Description
Are you aware of the key legal issues that arise when providing care for vulnerable adults?
Looking to expand your knowledge on caring for vulnerable adults? This legal course covers all the essential topics to ensure you provide the best care possible.
This one day intensive training programme examines the key legal issues that arise when providing care for vulnerable adults including accountability, proper recording, capacity, consent, restraint, DNR’s, wardship applications and Powers of Attorney, among others.
What you will learn
A central theme of the training includes in-depth discussion of the legal and ethical dilemmas presented by the issue of capacity and its assessment in the delivery of care and treatment to the vulnerable adult.
Key Learning Points:
- Accountability
- Importance of good record keeping
- Consent and the National Consent Policy
- Capacity: the current legal position
- The Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act, 2015
- Recent cases before the superior courts
- Wards of Court
- Enduring Powers of Attorney
Who should attend:
All medical, health and social care professionals who work with Vulnerable Adults or have an interest in this area.
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