Legal and Ethical Aspects of End of Life Care

Legal and Ethical Aspects of End of Life Care Name: Institution: According to the Mental Capacity Act, it is possible for the patients to make prior decisions with regard to their health (The national achieves, 2013). This may include where the patients chooses to be taken for health care in case they are incapable of taking care of themselves, medical treatment they may choose to receive or not to receive. The act allows the appointment of ahealth care assistant or a relative to make or implement the medical decision. In this case the registered nurse legally had to go with the mandate given to the daughter to carry out the decisions of her elderly father. The wish of her father was witnessed, written and signed, which is the copy that the daughter produced, and the registered nurse would not do otherwise. For the registered nurse to provide the necessary care to the patient and the family, she first had to respect the wishes of the dying patient ( HYPERLINK "/contents/ethical-issues-near-the-end-of-life/contributors" Gillick, 2012). Then she would have to explain to the rest of thefamily why she did what she did, which was against their wishes (Dying matters, 2012). Her father had granted the daughter with the duty of implementing his wishes when he was old and incapable of making his own decisions, which is legally binding.The nurse, therefore, ...