Question

Informed Consent Discuss a patient's right to informed consent by reflecting on a time when you or a family member were asked to provide consent for a procedure (i.e., consent for a surgical procedure, consent for a diagnostic procedure, consent for vaccination, or consent for a dental procedure). Based on the facts surrounding the event and what you've learned regarding informed consent, explain why you believe the consent was or was not a proper consent. 1. Describe how the information you received did or did not meet the standards of informed consent. 2. Describe the measures taken by the health care providers working with you or your family member to ensure that you were fully informed. 3. What more could have been done to ensure informed consent was achieved?

Answer 1

Ans.1)Informed consent is the process by which a fully informed patient can participate in choices about her health care. It originates from the legal and ethical right the patient has to direct what happens to her body and from the ethical duty of the physician to involve the patient in her health care.Evey patient has the right to get information and ask questions before procedures and treatments. If adult patients are mentally able to make their own decisions, medical care cannot begin unless they give informed consent.

2.informed consent includes following:-

• What the trial is for and how it will be run.
• The risks and potential benefits.
• Responsibilities and confidentiality.
• The voluntary nature or participation.
• Additional information.

3.The entire informed consent process involves giving a subject adequate information concerning the study, providing adequate opportunity for the subject to consider all options, responding to the subject's questions, ensuring that the subject has comprehended this information, obtaining the subject's voluntary agreement .