PHS FOI 2025-002212
- Date of request
- 26 August 2025
- Date of response
- 18 September 2025
- FOI request ID
- PHS FOI 2025-002212
- Drugs
Request
“
- Can you confirm that if a Nurse administers Midazolam and Morphine to an elderly patient that said nurse/nurses need full informed consent from the POA if the patient is incapacitated?
- Am I correct in my understanding that it would not be ethical to assume consent?
- Should a patient be monitored after being given Midazolam and Morphine in a hospital?
- Should a Nurse report in the notes the reason why she is administering it?
- Can an administrator of these drugs give these drugs upon a Drs instruction only, if POA to patient is there and the drugs given have not been disclosed to them?
- Can you give guidelines on consent re the administration of Midazolam and Morphine.”