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This section will introduce readers to fundamental ethical principles relating to nursing and healthcare, as well as some of the key legal concepts with which healthcare professionals should become familiar in order to ensure that decisions around pharmacology have a legal and ethical basis.

Any decisions made about pharmacology require consideration of various issues: what you are legally obliged to do, what you are professionally guided to do and what is in the best interests of the person within the situation. In practice, the three usually exist together; but before considering them as a whole, let's start with the fundamentals and look at them separately.

This chapter will consider the three components that underpin high‐quality decision‐making in pharmacology:

 the law

 ethical principles and theories

 regulatory bodies.