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13 Cards in this Set
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What is the patient's right to know the diagnosis, nature of contemplated procedure, prospects of success, prognosis with and without treatment, alternative treatments, and what risks are involved?
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Informed consent
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What are the concepts that play a role in ethical decision making?
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Nonmaleficence: Do no harm
Beneficence: Remove harm, prevent harm, do good Autonomy: Respect patient's wishes Justice: Apply/distribute services fairly Veracity: Truthfulness |
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What is an action against the wishes of the person peing compelled, but for his or her welfare?
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Paternalism
It must do more good than an act of the individual on their own |
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What is an additional criterion for health professions?
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Due process
second opinion documentation of seriousness of problem |
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What is the practice of informing a patient of the information relevant to a choice to authorize or refuse a proposed course of therapy and enabling him or her to make a choice about the intervention?
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Informed Consent
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Patients should be assumed to be competent until it is established that they are not |
True
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What is the legal term that designates whether persons have the legal authority to make personal choices, such as managing health care decisions or finances?
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Competence
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What are the three standards to establish what you have to tell the patient for a consent to be adequately informed by?
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Professional Standard
Reasonable Person Standard Subjective Standard |
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Which standard is when the patient is given all available information with which to make decision?
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Professional Standard
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Which standard is when the information that a rational/reasonable person would want to know?
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Reasonable Person Standard
(this is the recommended method to help patients make an educated decision)** |
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Which standard is when the information is what the patient wants to hear?
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Subjective Standard
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What are the specific elements of consent?
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Treatment alternatives and risks and benefits
Charges for the treatment alternatives Who will perform the different aspects of care Special interests of those involved |
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Who are some people who are unable to give informed consent?
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Children under 18
Developmentally disabled person An alzheimer's patient |
