INFORMED CONSENT EVALUATION EXAM 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Barriers to consider when ensuring comprehension - ✔✔Langauge, anxiety,
physical/emotional impairments, culture
✔✔Recommendaiton - ✔✔May have a strong influence on patients decision making.
When offered, it is considered part of the clinician's responsibility to inform and guide.
Not considered coercion.
✔✔Implied consent - ✔✔Presumed when inaction may cause greater injury, or would be
contrary to good medical practice. Emergency room is an example.
✔✔General consent - ✔✔Provides consent for routine services and routine tough by
health care staff. Very broad, does not give specific risks (hospital admission)
✔✔Special consent - ✔✔High-risk procedures and medical treatments (cardiac cath,
surgery)
✔✔Verbal consent - ✔✔Needs to have the same discussion about procedures, risks,
and alternative. Difficult to prove. Document thoroughly.
✔✔Written consent - ✔✔The preferred from of consent. Documents the exchange of
understanding.
✔✔Do patients have the right to refuse treatment? - ✔✔Yes. Must be documented.
✔✔Exceptions to informed consent requirements - ✔✔-Emergencies
-Patient unable to consent
- Patient waiver of consent to treat
-Public health requirements
Therapeutic privilege
✔✔Emergency - ✔✔based on the idea that the patient would consent to treatment to
preserve life or health if they were able
✔✔Patient cannot consents - ✔✔Informed consent is required from a surrogate acting
on behalf of the patient
✔✔Patient waives the right to consent - ✔✔Patient may choose another to make their
decisions. Request needs to be made competently, voluntarily, and with understanding
✔✔Public health requirements - ✔✔Medical interventions may have a potential benefit
to others in the community and the patient. Detention and treatment may be authorized.
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Barriers to consider when ensuring comprehension - ✔✔Langauge, anxiety,
physical/emotional impairments, culture
✔✔Recommendaiton - ✔✔May have a strong influence on patients decision making.
When offered, it is considered part of the clinician's responsibility to inform and guide.
Not considered coercion.
✔✔Implied consent - ✔✔Presumed when inaction may cause greater injury, or would be
contrary to good medical practice. Emergency room is an example.
✔✔General consent - ✔✔Provides consent for routine services and routine tough by
health care staff. Very broad, does not give specific risks (hospital admission)
✔✔Special consent - ✔✔High-risk procedures and medical treatments (cardiac cath,
surgery)
✔✔Verbal consent - ✔✔Needs to have the same discussion about procedures, risks,
and alternative. Difficult to prove. Document thoroughly.
✔✔Written consent - ✔✔The preferred from of consent. Documents the exchange of
understanding.
✔✔Do patients have the right to refuse treatment? - ✔✔Yes. Must be documented.
✔✔Exceptions to informed consent requirements - ✔✔-Emergencies
-Patient unable to consent
- Patient waiver of consent to treat
-Public health requirements
Therapeutic privilege
✔✔Emergency - ✔✔based on the idea that the patient would consent to treatment to
preserve life or health if they were able
✔✔Patient cannot consents - ✔✔Informed consent is required from a surrogate acting
on behalf of the patient
✔✔Patient waives the right to consent - ✔✔Patient may choose another to make their
decisions. Request needs to be made competently, voluntarily, and with understanding
✔✔Public health requirements - ✔✔Medical interventions may have a potential benefit
to others in the community and the patient. Detention and treatment may be authorized.
