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PHE3LMH Law and Management in Health - La Trobe University

TASK - Health Practitioners and Informed Consent

If you have been affected by unprofessional practices of health professionals, what rights do you have?

Task 3 helps you develop an understanding of how law relates to health professionals' practice. It highlights the intersection of ethics and law by focusing on the important requirement in health care of informed consent.

Task 3

Scenario
You have received treatment in Melbourne from a (choose one):
• Nurse
• Chiropractor
• Physiotherapist
• Surgeon
• Dentist
• Paramedic
• Chinese medicine practitioner (for acupuncture)
• Psychologist
• Podiatrist

You believe that you didn't give informed consent for a particular procedure to take place and are not satisfied with the outcome of the procedure. As you wouldn't like this experience to happen to anyone else, you do some research about making complaints in Victoria. You reach out to a trusted colleague to elp you take action:

Write a 500-word letter to a colleague that outlines the problem, explains what you have found out about making a complaint about this particular type of health professional, and that asks them for their advice on what to do. Include your sources of information.

Include in your response
In your letter, make sure you cover each of the following points:
• The nature of the problem (why you are concerned about the health professional's behaviour) and the type of health professional involved
• Which specific law determines this health professional's legal basis for practice. Make reference to:
o name and jurisdiction of the Act
o when the Act was introduced
o the main objective of the Act
o how the Act governs the way this health professional needs to practice

• What informed consent is, in the eyes of the law, and what a member of the public needs to know to be able to give informed consent for procedures provided by health professionals
• The complaint process. Include:
o the steps you would expect to go through if you make a complaint to the health professional themselves
o the steps you would expect to go through if you report a complaint to authorities
o the anticipated outcome of the complaint process
• Any uncertainties or anxieties you might have about making a complaint about this matter.

Attachment:- Law and Management in Health.rar