Informed Consent Summary
What is Informed Consent
Osteopathic informed consent is the valid consent obtained in response to a proposed examination or treatment, after appropriate advice and information has been provided by the practitioner.
Consent cannot be categorised as informed if treatment is agreed to by the patient without detailing all the information regarding the nature of the treatment, the reasoning for its recommendation and other information they would regard as relevant to their decision, such as inherent risks of the treatment and alternate treatment options.
In order to provide informed consent a patient has a right to sufficient information for his/her understanding of:
1. the diagnosis and likely outcome (prognosis) of
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specific details of the treatment
6. any other options for treatment and their probability of success
7. cost of treatment
8. option to defer treatment
9. right to withdraw consent to treatment at any time.
Importance
Good osteopathic practice requires obtaining a patient’s informed consent. Informed consent guidelines have been developed by the Osteopathic Board of Australia and is important that osteopaths follow these guidelines during their consultations. These guidelines ensure clear lines of communication are maintained, providing the patient with all available information to make well informed decisions about their healthcare. This process empowers the patient and builds trust and comfort between patient and practitioner, ultimately leading to improved patient healthcare outcomes.
Furthermore, If Osteopaths do not abide by the OBA informed consent guidelines, osteopaths are at risk of repercussions if patients make a complaint to the OBA. The Osteopathy Board of Australia will investigate an osteopath who is alleged to have breached the informed consent guidelines and if the allegations are justified, the OBA can impose sanctions including deregistration.
Confidentiality Summary
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complying with relevant legislation, policies and procedures relating to consent
8. using consent processes, including formal documentation if required, for the release and exchange of health and medical information
9. ensuring that use of social media is consistent with the practitioner’s ethical and legal obligations to protect privacy.
Importance
Confidentiality is essential in healthcare for developing trust and comfort between patient and practitioner, ultimately optimising patient healthcare outcomes. A breach of confidentiality can not only affect a person’s dignity leading to embarrassment but can cause harm and damage relationships. For example, if personal health information is disclosed to a third party (employer, insurer, or family member), it can result in stigma, embarrassment, and discrimination. Thus, without some assurance of privacy, people may be reluctant to provide complete disclosures of sensitive information even to their osteopaths. Ensuring privacy can promote more effective communication between physician and patient, which is essential for quality of care, enhanced autonomy, and preventing economic harm, embarrassment, and
In Amira’s case, an issue of consent is arisen that her GP has not explained to her much about the conditions she is suffering and the medication that he prescribed. Amira was left a little confused because she did not has the chance to ask questions. For obtaining consent, it must be informed and capacity which means that Amira must be given all of the information of the treatment and they understand the information provided by the doctor and they can use it to make a decision (13). Obtaining consent will lead to enhancement of the efficiency to the treatment because Amira is happy and showing agreement to the
Disclosing confidential patient information without patient consent can happen in the health care field quite often and is the basis for many cases brought against health care facilities. There are many ways confidential information gets into the wrong hands and this paper explores some of those ways and how that can be prevented.
“Action X is an informed consent by person P to intervention I if and only if:
Informed consent is the basis for all legal and moral aspects of a patient’s autonomy. Implied consent is when you and your physician interact in which the consent is assumed, such as in a physical exam by your doctor. Written consent is a more extensive form in which it mostly applies when there is testing or experiments involved over a period of time. The long process is making sure the patient properly understands the risk and benefits that could possible happen during and after the treatment. As a physician, he must respect the patient’s autonomy. For a patient to be an autonomous agent, he must have legitimate moral values. The patient has all the rights to his medical health and conditions that arise. When considering informed consent, the patient must be aware and should be able to give a voluntary consent for the treatment and testing without being coerced, even if coercion is very little. Being coerced into giving consent is not voluntary because others people’s opinions account for part of his decision. Prisoners and the poor population are two areas where coercion is found the most when giving consent. Terminally ill patients also give consent in hope of recovering from their illness. Although the possibilities are slim of having a successful recovery, they proceed with the research with the expectation of having a positive outcome. As stated by Raab, “informed consent process flows naturally from the ‘partnership’ between physician and patient” (Raab). Despite the fact that informed consent is supposed to educate the patients, it is now more of an avoidance of liability for physicians (Raab). Although the physician provides adequate information to his patient, how can he ensure that his patient properly ...
Is informed consent always necessary for randomized, controlled trials? The following sentences are different scenarios that answer the question. Informed consent should not be waived unless the treatment is offered inside and outside the trial. Treatment should not involve more than minimal risk compared to alternatives. Genuine clinic must value the treatments the same. No reasonable person should have a preference for one treatment or another (Truog et al. 1999).
Queensland Health (2011) states that in the nursing profession, certain principles must be fulfilled in order for informed consent to be considered valid. They state that the patient must be deemed to have the capacity to make a decision about the proposed issue at that specific time, and not be under the influence of any alcohol or drugs. They state that the patient must consent voluntarily and the decision be made free of manipulation or undue influence by family or the nurse. They suggest that the discussion must involve two-way communication between the patient and the nurse and be clear, rational and sensitive to the situation. The nurse must provide the patient with sufficient information about the proposed issue in a language that the patient can clearly comprehend (Queensland Health, 2011). When providing care, both nurses and paramedics must ensure that the patient has adequate knowledge and have a necessary understanding of the procedure, to...
Consent is an issue of concern for all healthcare professional when coming in contact with patients either in a care environment or at their home. Consent must be given voluntary or freely, informed and the individual has the capacity to give or make decisions without fear or fraud (Mental Capacity Act, 2005 cited in NHS choice, 2010). The Mental Capacity Act perceives every adult competent unless proven otherwise as in the case of Freeman V Home Office, a prisoner who was injected by a doctor without consent because of behavioural disorder (Dimond, 2011). Consent serves as an agreement between the nurse and the patient, and allows any examination or treatment to be administered. Nevertheless, consent must be obtained in every occurrence of care as in the case of Mohr V William 1905 (Griffith and Tengrah, 2011), where a surgeon obtain consent to perform a procedure on a patient right ear. The surgeon found defect in the left ear of the patient and repaired it assuming he had obtained consent for both ear. The patient sued him and the court found the surgeon guilty of trespassing. Although there is no legal requirement that states how consent should be given, however, there are various ways a person in care of a nurse may give consent. This could be formal (written) form of consent or implied (oral or gesture) consent. An implied consent may be sufficient for taking observation or examination of patient, while written is more suitable for invasive procedure such as surgical operation (Dimond, 2011).
Each time a patient visits a doctor, is admitted to a hospital, goes to a pharmacist, or sends a claim to a health plan, a record is made of the confidential health information. The use of this information is protected and pieced together by state laws, which leave gaps in the protection of patient's privacy and confidentiality. Together all of the programs mentioned are developing strategies to better protect patient records. AHIMA members foresee daily conflicts and challenges dealing with patient confidentiality and access to their records. The resolution of these issues combined will one day result in a comprehensive national standard that will enhance individual privacy, foster research and protect the public health.
This assessment will address the potential and risk assessment of using social media in health care. Furthermore, it will address the policies and guidelines which all nurses are expected to adhere.
To begin, to those who may wonder what informed consent is, it is a legal and ethical prerequisite for clinical research on humans (Bristol, par 2). The purpose of informed consent is to ensure that patient autonomy is respected in decisions about their healthcare (Susilo, 1). Many people say that the term was first used in 1957. There was a malpractice case with Salgo v Leland Stanford Jr. The California Supreme court stated that no patient can submit to a medical intervention without having given “informed consent”. Even though the courts had said this, inf...
Medical records and their contents have been an important issue concerning privacy for physicians and their patients. A health care reform bill which passed legislation in 1996 is known as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) had a new rule put into place in 2000, which requires health care physicians and insurance providers to put into place new procedures that would guard patient health information ("Patient Privacy and Confidentiality", 2013).
Informed consent is a very serious decision a patient has to make when it comes to their health and consenting to procedures that are believed to cure or treat their current health status. It is important to address the effectiveness of the role a physician play in the informed consent process assuring that the patient has given truly informed consent and what safeguards can be put in place to assure the patient is exercising informed consent. Informed consent is based on the fact that the person consenting is a rational individual that is aware of the action to which he/she is consenting. Allen and McNamara (2011) notes that "On the standard understanding, the important elements of informed consent are the provision of information, the voluntariness of the choice and the competence of the chooser to make the choice— so the potential research participant should be provided with information relevant to the decision to participate, they should be able to choose freely about their participation and they should be competent to decide.
Desiree’s Baby is a story that ultimately is sad, despite its beginning. A woman going by the name Desiree gives birth to a child on a plantation. This brings her, and her husband, Armand, much happiness, until Armand discovers that the baby is mixed. Though Armand was the only one disturbed by this at the time, he immediately blames Desiree for the baby’s ethnicity, which results in Desiree’s running away from the plantation with the infant, never to return. Many literary critics claim that this story focuses on the injustice of racial oppression. However, the actual injustice present in the story is the injustice of a wrongly attributed racial identity, given the work’s actual focus and Desiree’s situation.
Patients’ have the right to know all details related to the service or treatment that will be provided and the right to refuse any such service or treatment before it happens. This informed consent will communicate exact procedure details, pain intensity and or disability period encountered, risk involvement, and any alternative methods of treatment and its risks. A patient will receive a concurrence...