Healthcare Informed consent Presentation 
Caregiver Support Services
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
When it comes to healthcare, few concepts are as criticaland often misunderstoodas informed consent. At its core, informed consent is the process by which patients are given the information they need to make educated decisions about their care. What Makes Up Effective Informed Consent?
GeriPal
OCTOBER 5, 2023
I felt like I was always told to present people with a buffet of options and, really, without guidance, ask them to choose, which is, it would always make me feel sick to my stomach. And I worry, I’m not sure that appealing to, we haven’t engaged in complete informed consent if we haven’t done this.
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Diversity Nursing
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Nurse advocates are tasked with helping patients understand and navigate their healthcare journey, including answering questions, explaining medical care, discussing and explaining billing or insurance, and other healthcare-related topics. Nurses are often the first and last contact for patients in the healthcare setting.
GeriPal
OCTOBER 12, 2023
I love this series of articles because each presents a component of a practical, patient-centered approach to patient-surgeon communication and decision making, and language surgeons (and surgical trainees) can start using in their next patient visit. Gretchen: Absolutely. And I think it came out of this good space.
GeriPal
JANUARY 16, 2025
So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate. So we’re not making this decision just as a healthcare institution.
GeriPal
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Eric: Well, I feel like just hearing about this case, so on one hand it feels like our healthcare system really only cares about caregivers and family members when decisions need to be made and especially if the patient doesn’t have capacity, or we’re now talking about discharge. Eric: Yeah. I love the idea of both the context.
GeriPal
MARCH 24, 2022
Susan: I’ll just say, I think that could happen outside of the healthcare setting pretty easily and frequently does. So it’s an example of something that can start outside of the healthcare system and move its way in. Eric: Anybody else’s thoughts on that? I think Bob also noted documenting it. Rebecca: Agreed.
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