Questions about the Assessing Capacity poster

What’s on the Assessing Capacity poster?

6 numbered steps. Assume capacity. Support the decision first. Assess only if doubt remains. Presume capacity — An unwise decision is not, by itself, evidence of incapacity.; Support the decision — Timing, language, aids, interpreters, a familiar person present.; Understand — Can the person take in the relevant information?; Retain — Long enough to make the decision, not indefinitely.; Weigh and use — Can they use the information to reach a decision?; Communicate — By any means at all, including gesture or a device.. Educational reference. Capacity law and best-interests processes vary by country. Follow local legislation, policy and senior guidance.

Who is the Assessing Capacity poster for?

Assessing Capacity belongs to the Nursing section rather than to a school year, because life science is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning professional practice can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Assessing Capacity poster?

A person may lack capacity for one decision and retain it for another the same day. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Assessing Capacity belongs on the wall where that life science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Assessing Capacity?

Clinical Governance, Confidentiality and Cultural Safety sit alongside Assessing Capacity in the Nursing section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Clinical GovernanceConfidentialityCultural Safety

Is the Assessing Capacity poster free to download and print?

Yes. Assessing Capacity downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Nursing section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Assessing Capacity poster print at?

Assessing Capacity is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Assessing Capacity loses nothing.Printing guide