https://www.psychdb.com/ 2026-07-18T03:58:42-0700 https://www.psychdb.com/ https://www.psychdb.com/lib/tpl/bootstrap3/images/favicon.ico text/html 2023-01-03T22:03:05-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/on/consent-capacity-board-hearings?rev=1672812185&do=diff Consent and Capacity Board (CCB) Hearings (ON) Primer In the province of Ontario, the Consent and Capacity Board (CCB) is an independent, government review panel that holds hearings to determine whether a patient meets the criteria for incapacity to treatment and/or involuntary hospitalization. The CCB is independent of the physician and the hospital, and is a quasi-judicial body. The CCB also maintains independence from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.<ul id="frontpage "style="colum… text/html 2023-01-03T22:22:29-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/on/consent-capacity?rev=1672813349&do=diff Informed Consent and Capacity Assessment (ON) Primer Consent and Capacity are two central tenets in modern medicine and critical to patient autonomy, the respect for personal dignity, and the delivery of ethical care by physicians. This page focuses specifically on <ul id="frontpage "style="column-width:20em; -webkit-column-count: 1; -moz-column-count: 1; column-count: 1;" class="catlist_columns catlist-nslist" ><ul id="frontpage"><li class="catlist-head"><div class="entity-list-item"><span cl… text/html 2023-01-03T22:04:27-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/on/emergency-assessment?rev=1672812267&do=diff Emergency Capacity Assessments (ON) Primer Sometimes, you may be paged about an urgent capacity issue while on call, and a patient wants to leave. The following 2×2 table can help guide your decisions on whether a patient should leave. When in doubt, <ul id="frontpage "style="column-width:20em; -webkit-column-count: 1; -moz-column-count: 1; column-count: 1;" class="catlist_columns catlist-nslist" ><ul id="frontpage"><li class="catlist-head"><div class="entity-list-item"><span class="fa-stack f… text/html 2023-09-26T12:06:25-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/on/f-ltc-capacity?rev=1695755185&do=diff Long-Term Care Capacity Assessment (ON) Primer In Ontario, the law requires the consent of a patient before admission to a care facility such as a long-term care (LTC) home. However, one may not recognize his or her need for placement into a long-term care home, even when this placement is important to their health. Cognitive impairment or dementia, may cause a decline in memory, reasoning, planning and judgement, and make one incapable to decide if they need LTC. Thus, if incapacity is suspec… text/html 2023-01-03T22:05:28-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/on/financial-capacity?rev=1672812328&do=diff Financial Capacity Assessment (ON) Primer A Financial Capacity Assessment should be done when there is concern that an individual could be incapable of managing their finances in the context of a psychiatric (e.g. - spending during a manic episode in bipolar I disorder) or neurocognitive disorder (e.g. - dementia).<ul id="frontpage "style="column-width:20em; -webkit-column-count: 1; -moz-column-count: 1; column-count: 1;" class="catlist_columns catlist-nslist" ><ul id="frontpage"><li class="ca… text/html 2023-01-03T22:12:38-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/on/hcca?rev=1672812758&do=diff Health Care Consent Act (HCCA) (ON) Primer The Health Care Consent Act (HCCA) applies to all aspects of health care in Ontario and provides rules for obtaining informed, voluntary consent from a substitute decision maker. Section 4 of the HCCA outlines the guidelines for consent and capacity (one shall not administer treatment without a patient's consent - otherwise it is battery or assault). The HCCA is what allows you to determine whether treatment can be imposed on an individual if you do n… text/html 2023-01-03T22:28:16-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/on/home?rev=1672813696&do=diff Introduction to Ontario's Health Care Laws Primer Ontario's Mental Health Act (MHA) and Health Care Consent Act (HCCA) are two pieces of legislation that guide mental health care and health care in the province of Ontario, Canada. The Mental Health Act (MHA) applies to psychiatric care, and provides rules and a legal process for voluntary, informal, and involuntary admissions. The Health Care Consent Act (HCCA) applies to all aspects of health care (both medical and psychiatric) and provides r… text/html 2023-01-03T22:04:43-0700 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.psychdb.com/teaching/on/poa?rev=1672812283&do=diff Power of Attorney (POA) (Ontario) Primer In Ontario, Power of Attorney (POA) is a legal document which allows an individual to transfer the right to make decisions (medical and financial) to a trusted individual (the “attorney”), should they become incapable to make their own decisions either due to physical or mental incapacity. Medical POA and financial POA are separately designated, but a single individual can be POA for both.<ul id="frontpage "style="column-width:20em; -webkit-column-count…