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Evaluating the Role of the Peri operative Nurse in the Informed Consent Process

...... Notwithstanding the paucity of uniformity in informed consent approaches, obtaining the informed consent of patients is an expected component of clinical practice around the world (Sugarman, McCrory, Powell, Krasny, Adams, Ball & Cassell 1999). According to Sugarman and his associates, In concert with strong theoretical justifications, an array of laws, regulations, court cases, policy statements, and professional guidelines emphasize the need for obtaining meaningful informed consent. Moreover, strong popular reactions to alleged failures to obtain consent, such as those in response to human radiation experiments conducted during the Cold War, underscore this professional, legal, and philosophical expectation (1999: 1). The expectations and responsibilities of clinicians that are associated with informed consent counseling, then, are firmly based on ethical and legal grounds that are common to all treatment settings that emphasize the fundamental right of humans to decide for themselves what is in their best interests, even if such a decision runs contrary to evidence-based practice and the experience of the healthcare treatment team. In this regard, Wear emphasizes that, The new ethos of patient autonomy, for its part, enjoys broad societal consensus regarding many of its basic prescriptions. Further, like the law, the new ethos seems to presume that