Respect for patient autonomy in forensic psychiatric nursing.

From: Journal of Forensic Nursing | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Rose, Donald N. | Copyright information

A fundamental issue that forensic psychiatric nurses struggle with is respect for patient autonomy, as the two liberal prerequisites for autonomy, liberty and rationality, are either absent or compromised in forensic psychiatric settings. In this paper, a contemporary feminist perspective of autonomy, relational autonomy, will be advanced as an alternative approach to the traditional liberalist, Kantian, perspective of autonomy. The concepts of autonomy, paternalism, and justice wil...

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