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Informed Choice is a Core Value

Midwives believe in maintaining client autonomy

Client

someone seeks you out for your servives


active, engaged, healthy clients

patients

sick and passive person needing care

consent

you were given an ulitimatum


implies passivity


"ok you can do that to me"

Choice

active and engaging


reviewing choices

Informed Choice

educate- client must understand what they are makinga decision about so they can make an appropriate choice

Shared decision making

a process by which the client and relavent people in her life and the midwife, sit down and discuss choices, and together arrive at a shared decision

Informed consent

appropriate in an emergency situation


appropriate for neonatal resecutation

Informed choice

not a clear clinical indication in any direction- vit. k

Shared decision making

when a complication arises through a clinical assessment-- get to the laboring woman's house and baby is breech, VBAC, twins/multiples, size doesnt matchdates so you may reccomend and U/S


things that may move her out of your care or stretch your normal care- clinical judgement

Informed choice

is a process- so the client can make a decision herself


it is a record keeping tool- keeps things organized


could be a document or a conversation that is charted


Advantage of document

gives the client something to refer


can include additional resources

Ethically Valid Informed Choice

1. Knowing- all the info they need to make a solid choice, in native language


2. Competent- not competent- minor, unconsious,speak a diff. language, substance abuse, mental disorders, extreme pain


3. Voluntary- subtle factors- rushed, cost, fears, family

Blanket consent

you consent to "appropriate care"- so routine care may be given to you that you many not want


- can be appropraite say during surgery


they are not informed consents


As a client, you have the right to modify a consent document

Informed Choice Components

-description/defenition including standard of care


-benefits/risks of procedure- including success rates:cite your sources


-alternitives inclduing the risks/benefits


-Risk of non-treatment


-issues around recoop- physical/emotional


-clear who is the provider doing the procedure

informed choice components

-the use of removed tissues- i.e. PKU, pap smear, placenta-client may request to have them destroyed

tips

-appropraite reading level


-structure- font, headings, size


-not just yes or now check boxes


- I have recieved info, had the oppurtunity to ask questions, i understand the risks and the benefits


-question answer format


-clear title


-cochran database

Categories of Interventions

-dont need a informed choice document when standard for general population- BP, blood draw


-may have a conversation in leu of a full on document- BRAND, BRAIN- client is still a part of the decision- huge thing to make sure the woman remains in control- will affect how she feels about her experience and how she walks into motherhood