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Need 1</strong> - Students need to understand the specific challenges of working with children, from birth to sixteen, and working with their families.
Children and Young People Having Choices and Making Health Decisions
Children and Young People Having Choices and Making Health Decisions
Key Points
- Children and young people can be excluded from making decisions about their health care and treatment based on misconceptions that they lack the ability to understand difficult medical information.
- Professionals need to communicate with children, young people and their parents to find out how involved they want to be in decisions and choices about their care.
- If children and young people are not competent to provide consent for treatment or surgery they should be provided with the opportunity to express an opinion about their care and for this to be listened to.
- Factors which can influence children's and young people's ability to make decisions include age, ...
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