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¶ … Consent
Meaning and importance of informed consent
Elements of full informed consent
A Case Example
Fictional scenario of a client/client issue 3
Meaning and importance of informed consent
The process where rights of a patient to information about a certain treatment procedure are clearly and completely disclosed to a patient by the treating health care provider so that the patient is able to make voluntary choices to either accept or to refuse treatment is termed as informed consent (Appelbaum, 2007). This term or the concept has its roots in the legal and the ethical rights of a patient that allows the patient to direct and choose what happens to his/her body during or after treatment as well as in the ethical duty that a physician has to involve the patient in the process health care by giving all relevant information to him/her. Thus, the moral and the legal premise of the patient autonomy forms the basis of the concept and the necessity of informed consent.
Informed consent is, therefore, necessary and assumes importance due to its inherent nature of human rights, in which a patient is the only one who would ultimately decide what happens to him or her. This is also important because the relatives and the close ones of the patient also have the...
This has assumed the shape of a law where every clinical or therapy procedure must have a written consent from the patient who has been well informed about the procedures. Battery -- a form of assault, is eh legal term that is use when a medical practitioner or a health care provider fails to obtain an informed consent before conducting or performing a test or a procedure on a patient (Turnbull, 2009).
The Thesis Statement
Informed consent is necessary for a patient to know what happens to him/her during or after treatment.
Elements of full informed consent
While obtaining an informed consent, a health care provider or a physician require to disclose the nature of the medical decision or the procedure planned, the potential reasonable alternatives of the proposed intervention, the potential risks, the benefits and the uncertainties that are related to each of the alternatives, a complete assessment of the understanding of the situation by the patient about the information, as well as the final acceptance by the patient of the health intervention (Morgenstern, 2010).
A Case Example
In the case of Duncan v. Scottsdale Med. Imaging, Ltd.…
References
Appelbaum, P. (2007). Assessment of Patients' Competence to Consent to Treatment. New England Journal Of Medicine, 357(18), 1834-1840. http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/nejmcp074045
Duncan v. Scottsdale Med. Imaging, Ltd.. (2016). Lawandbioethics.com. Retrieved 26 May 2016, from http://www.lawandbioethics.com/demo/Main/LegalResources/C5/Duncan.htm
Morgenstern, L. (2010). Patient-Centered Care and Informed Consent. JAMA, 304(4), 409. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2010.1029
Opinion 8.08 - Informed Consent. (2016). Ama-assn.org. Retrieved 26 May 2016, from http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics/opinion808.page?
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