Decision-Making Capacity

Capacity vs. competence and who decides

Welcome to Bioethics Basics. I’m Aimee – a nurse-turned-ethicist and ethics educator. My goal is to make ethics education more accessible by simplifying complex concepts in bioethics for the busy point-of-care clinician.

I want to follow up my recent discussion of advance directives by exploring decision-making capacity. In its simplest form, decision-ma…