Informed Consent

Informed Consent

1. "Service Quality and Patient-Centered Care"

   • Nursing Implications
     • understand patient needs, wants, and asses understanding of the procedure
     • Nurses should communicate with patients to ensure all questions are answered thoroughly.
   • Patient Implications
     • Patients need to feel comfortable to ask any questions they have regarding the procedure.

2. "Nurses' Roles in Informed Consent in a Hierarchical and Communal Context"

   • Nursing Implications
     • witness- attest authenticity of patient signature and compliance with treatment prescribed
     • communicate information regarding the treatment so patient is able to make the best decision going forward
     • Do not allow patient to sign if patient believed to be coerced, incapable of making decision on their own, or if they have possibly changed their mind
   • Patient Implications
     • if cannot write, consent will need to be recorded audibly
     • right to interpreter
     • ask questions, and letting hospital staff know if they do not understand
     • right to receive current, accurate information regarding the statistics of treatment and all viable options presented before making a decision

3. "Informed Consent: Whose Duty to Inform?"

   • Nursing Implications
     • inform patient of all potential complications/caveats regarding the care in which they are consenting to receive
     • Witness and Assess patient ability to make a sound, informed, and non-coerced decision regarding the care
   • Patient Implications
     • have a relationship with their provider in which they feel confident and comfortable asking questions surrounding their care

4. "Problematising Autonomy and Advocacy In Nursing Care"

   • Nursing Implications
     • Nurses need to understand that patients need autonomy in their healthcare experience.
     • Nurses should be able to recognize when a patient is unable to make an informed choice regarding their medical care.
   • Patient Implications
     • Patients should be willling to ask questions when confused about informed consent
     • Patients should be allowed to make healthcare decisions without the nurse influences their choice

5. "Informed Consent Prior to Nursing Care Procedures"

   • Nursing Implicaitons
     • spearhead a positive change by showing other staff members the importance and positive outcomes of providing informed consent prior to procedures are implemented
     • New nurses should observe the process of informed consent related to nursing care procedures so that they may benefit and the quality of information they share with patients is improved
   • Patient Implications
     • If not properly informed/receiving correct information can raise anxiety and prolong healing/poor rapport
     • without proper information can lead to inappropriate delivery of care

6. "Patient advocacy and patient centredness in participant recruitment to randomized-controlled trials: implications for informed consent"

   • Nursing Implications
     • reaffirming patient that role first and foremost is both as a patient advocate and as clinicians
     • ensure that the patient understands nurse is not a recruiter for the concept
   • patient
     • important to feel heard when making an informed decision regarding a procedure/intervention
     • understand/feel they can ask questions openly and have a clinician who is well versed enough to answer those concerns