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Keeping Secrets: The Healthcare Worker’s Duty of Confidentiality

Duty of Care

What is the Serious Incident Response Scheme (SIRS)?

First-Responders: Workplace Stress isn’t a Crime

Aggression and Sedation

Factitious Disorder Imposed on Another

Managing Schedule 8 Medicines Safely

Missed Care: A Shocking Tale of Neglect

Regulating Paramedics: Understanding Your Professional Obligations

Unregulated Care Workers: Capacity & Consent

Ethical and Legal Allocation of Resources

What is a Conflict of Interest?

Responsible Information Delivery and Management

Mandatory Reporting

An Explanation of Advance Care Directives

Quick Chats: What is Patient Advocacy?

Quick Chats: Important Aspects of Patient Advocacy

Advance Care Directives

What is Chemical Restraint and is it Legal?

Consent to Treatment

Apology and Open Disclosure in Healthcare

Understanding the Opioid Crisis in 2019

Elder Abuse

LGBTQI Awareness in Aged Care

Unexplained Absences and Missing Residents

Understanding Professional Boundaries

Aged Care Quality Standards

Forensic Nursing

Mental Health Law

Palliative Care in Aged Care

Quality, Risk, and Missed Nursing Care

Legal Ramifications of Missed Nursing Care

What is 'Missed Care'?

Drug Use and Mandatory Reporting

Healthcare Complaints and Investigations

Community Attitudes Towards Cannabis Use

The Ethics of Medicinal Marijuana

Shining a Spotlight on CPD

Boundaries: Creating a Safe Space to Change

The Use of Restraint - Whose Need is Being Met?

Privacy, Confidentiality, and Bedside Handover

Changing of the Guard: Patient-Directed Care

Are You Asking Your Patient the Right Questions?

Consent and Refusal of Treatment