This document discusses ethical and legal issues in psychiatric nursing. It outlines key ethical principles like fidelity, respect, veracity, justice, non-maleficence, autonomy, and beneficence. It also discusses the rights of mentally ill patients, including rights to their clothes, storage space, possessions, spending money, communication, visitors, least restrictive treatment, civil service status, refusing ECT, managing property. The document covers legal implications like informed consent, invasion of privacy, false imprisonment, fraud, malpractice, negligence, assault, and battery. It defines parole for psychiatric patients and instructions for relatives when patients visit home.

1. PRESENTED BY
Mr. Sharad Kendre
Lecturer
M.I.N.S college of Nursing, Latur.
M. Sc. Nursing
Mental Health (Psychiatric) Nursing

2. Ethical And Legal IssuesEthical And Legal Issues
In Psychiatric NursingIn Psychiatric Nursing

3. ETHICSETHICS
• Branch of philosophy that deals with morality.
• Ethics is the science that deals with the
rightness and wrongness of action

4. ETHICAL PRINCIPLESETHICAL PRINCIPLES
Fidelity.
Respect.
Veracity
Justice.
Non- Maleficence
Autonomy.
Beneficence.

5. RIGHTS OF MENTALLY ILLRIGHTS OF MENTALLY ILL
PATIENTPATIENT
• The right to were their own clothes.
• The right to have individual storage space for their
private use.
• The right to keep and use their own personal
possession.
• The right to spend a sum of their money for their own
expenses.
• The right to have reasonable access to all
communication media like, telephone, letter writing
and mailing.
• The right to see visitors every day.

6. Cont.
• The right to treatment in the least restricted
setting.
• The right to hold civil service status.
• The right to refuse electroconvulsive therapy.
• The right to mange and dispose of property
and execute will.

7. LEGAL IMPLICATIONLEGAL IMPLICATION
Informed
consent
Legal Document
Invasion
of
privacy
False
imprisonment
Fraud
Malpractice
Negligence
BatteryAssault

8. PAROLEPAROLE
Parole is the permission given to patient to
perform certain rituals or attend certain family
functions.
•Relatives are clearly instructed about the purpose
for which the patient is being sent home and when
he should be brought back.

9. Cont..
• Instruct the relatives as to how they should converse or
behave with the mentally ill person according to the
instruction given by the doctor.
• If the patient is receiving any medications, insist on
regularity and give necessary instructions to the family
members about dosage, side effects, etc.
• The relatives be asked to observe communication
pattern, sleeping pattern, drug allergy, socialization,
ability to perform role.

10. REFERENCEREFERENCE
1. R. Sreevani A Guide to Mental Health and
Psychiatric Nursing 3nd
edition JP publication.
2. Kozier & Erbs, Fundamentals of Nursing, Process
and Practice Persons 8th
edition.
3. Townsend M.C, Psychiatric mental health nursing.
Concept of care in evidence-based practice.8th
edition. New Delhi: Jaypee brothers.