Professional Practice Questions And Answers

Review informed consent What is it? - Voluntarily authorization by a patient or their legal representative to do something to the patient true/valid consent = patient comprehension Includes: Needed material facts regarding treatment Description of alternatives to suggested treatment Risks and dangers of suggested treatment and alternative treatments including refusal. What will happen if they do nothing Review informed consent Whose responsibility is it? - Health care provider/physician/PA/NP performing procedure has the obligation of obtaining informed consent agency/hospital has the obligation if physician is an employee Review informed consent Nurse's role for informed consent? - HCP/Physician/PA/NP may delegate the task of filling out the form and obtaining signature to the nurse Nurse must ensure that the patient is adequately informed , if the patient is not the nurse notifies the HCP and supervisor. Review informed consent Rational for informed consent? - Prevention of battery Protects patient and their overall wellbeing/autonomy Review informed consent Ethical principle of informed consent? - Person has a right to control what happens to their body If they are not properly informed they may have signed up for a procedure they did not really want/need