Reflecting On Informed Consent In Health Care

Consent is critical when working with people in health care. Consent is received from a patient or client to receive treatment, participate in a study and determine how medical is best carried out to enhance the patient’s quality of life. Throughout my academic career, I have had experience with informed consent forms when participating in psychology research studies. This process consisted of being given an extensive description of the reason for the study, what I have to do to participate and how my participation and results will be used in the study. By signing the documentation, I was consenting to understanding the content, agreeing to participate and have my information used. Just as important, the researcher talked to me about the process before it happened not just depending on me reading the written documentation. This gave me the ability …show more content…
Reflecting on informed consent in the hospital setting my experience varies. Many patients that I work with are older adults some with dementia who have been declared without capacity to make decisions. Contrarily there are others who are still able to compose informed decisions for themselves. As an example, I