Editorial and Viewpoint
The Journal of Adult Protection, < a href="http://emeraldinsight.com/toc/jap/18/4" > Volume 18, Issue 4 < /a > , August 2016. < br/ > (Source: The Journal of Adult Protection)
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - July 7, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
An evaluation of adult safeguarding outcomes ’ focused recording in the context of Making Safeguarding Personal
This study was wholly reliant upon the data provided rather than primary investigations with practitioners and service users. The focus on recorded data permitted variance and recorded data was open to worker interpretation. Making Safeguarding Personal. The starting premise of the methodology by adopting a critical perspective sought to elevate the perspective of marginalised service user groups. This may have unduly framed the practitioner provider from a deficit position. Practical implications The need to ensure Making Safeguarding Personal approaches are embedded fully in all aspects of local authority safeguarding...
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - July 7, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
Fluctuating capacity and impulsiveness in Acquired Brain Injury: the dilemma of ‘unwise’ decisions under the Mental Capacity Act
This article examines the dilemma at the heart of nursing care – the striving for empowerment of people in nurses’ care with the responsibility to protect vulnerable adults from harm. In doing so, it argues that in difficult and borderline cases, capacity assessment is complex and ultimately based on a judgment involving interpretation, and welcomes the vie ws of clinicians who have challenged the procedural test of capacity in the Mental Capacity Act (MCA). Design/methodology/approach It presents an illustrative study of a person with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) resident in a nursing home, who had been assessed unde...
Source: The Journal of Adult Protection - July 7, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: research
