Informed consent which means to provide information and the validation of performing any tests to anyone. In other words, informed consent is to get the authority of the patients with them having clear information on what they are involving in and how it could affect them. In the film, Nurse Evers’ Boys demonstrates how practitioners and the public health service both underestimates the principle “informed consent” because of racial prejudice. The respect and the justice those Black men deserve were minimized because of their race. Nurse Evers plays a role in promoting the informed consent as she tells the doctor that it is not right to continue the study without informing the patients. Moreover, even after the discovery of penicillin as a
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The treatment, the program. I know that I'm doing good. Caleb Humphries: For us, sinners. Eunice Evers, R.N.: The disease is the sin, Caleb, not the people, the disease.”( Quotes. (n.d.). Nurse Evers was trying to compel her and Caleb to continue the study for a good purpose and that she is not doing any wrong by hindering the process of informed consent. Additionally, her position, held her back as she was a nurse and she had to hinder the process of informed consent as she did not have the right to speak up against the doctors. She states in court, “as a nurse, I didn’t feel that that was my responsibility. That was the doctors…as a nurse when I was being trained we were taught that we never diagnosis, we never prescribed; we followed the doctor’s instructions!” . She blames the position that she held as a nurse for hindering the process of informed consent as she was never authorized to prescribe, diagnosis and all she was there was to follow the instructions of the doctor. Nurse Evers’ ideology of the position that she held is another reason for why the patients never got informed consent for the study. Additionally, her above statements indicates that “time period” was also another reason for delaying the informed
The treatment, the program. I know that I'm doing good. Caleb Humphries: For us, sinners. Eunice Evers, R.N.: The disease is the sin, Caleb, not the people, the disease.”( Quotes. (n.d.). Nurse Evers was trying to compel her and Caleb to continue the study for a good purpose and that she is not doing any wrong by hindering the process of informed consent. Additionally, her position, held her back as she was a nurse and she had to hinder the process of informed consent as she did not have the right to speak up against the doctors. She states in court, “as a nurse, I didn’t feel that that was my responsibility. That was the doctors…as a nurse when I was being trained we were taught that we never diagnosis, we never prescribed; we followed the doctor’s instructions!” . She blames the position that she held as a nurse for hindering the process of informed consent as she was never authorized to prescribe, diagnosis and all she was there was to follow the instructions of the doctor. Nurse Evers’ ideology of the position that she held is another reason for why the patients never got informed consent for the study. Additionally, her above statements indicates that “time period” was also another reason for delaying the informed