Document Informed consent Social worker 
GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And importantly, our social worker, Aunt Kelly, actually does a search and I would say 75% of the time she finds somebody maybe even higher than that, finds somebody who’s actually a surrogate.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Alex: And a voice that will be very familiar to our listeners, a dynamic and enthusiastic social worker in palliative care at the San Francisco VA, Anne Kelly. They had it, the note then documents that they don’t have it. Emily: Looks like informed decision making around family involvement. Welcome back, Lynn.
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GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2022
And yet, I think for everyone who’s elderly, which is anyone who’s my age or older, I would say it’s very important and ought to be part of an annual exam that we ought to be asking that, and documenting it in the chart. I think Bob also noted documenting it. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that?
GeriPal
JULY 13, 2023
They found a difference of 4% in documented goals of care discussions. At its heart, it’s always been a brief, hopefully one page document that can be delivered to clinicians and or patients to get them thinking about topics related to goals of care discussions. So that then closes by saying, “Please document a short note.
The Nurse Break
DECEMBER 15, 2022
1- Obtain informed consent – there are 3 parts to the consent, consent to medical care, consent to the forensic exam we have the power to do this under the criminal law forensic procedure act 1935 and consent to give the information and evidence collected to the police as part of their investigation.
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