33-404.210 Mental Health Treatment -- Consent to Treatment. 🔗 📘
(1) Inmates must be asked to give express and informed written consent for offered mental health treatment within the Department, in accordance with Section 945.41, F.S.
(2) For inmates placed in a mental health treatment facility in accordance with section 945.44. F.S., when the express and informed consent of the inmate cannot be obtained or the inmate is incompetent to consent treatment, the warden of the mental health treatment facility, or his or her designee, under the direction of the inmate's attending physician, may authorize nonpsychiatric, emergency surgical treatment or other routine medical treatment if such treatment is deemed lifesaving or if there is a situation threatening serious bodily harm to the inmate.