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A Glance at Informed Consent in Healthcare

Caregiver Support Services

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?

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Caring for the Unrepresented: A Podcast with Joe Dixon, Timothy Farrell, Yael Zweig

GeriPal

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. And that can really inform what your own institutional policy is. Yael 44:20 I would say for AGS 2025, because I’m going to be giving a presentation with a colleague about that specific issue.

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The Language of Serious Illness: A Podcast with Sunita Puri, Bob Arnold, and Jacqueline Kruser

GeriPal

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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Patient Advocacy: A Closer Look

Diversity Nursing

Education Patient advocates provide information and insight into medical treatment options and medical conditions. Education is crucial in patient advocacy because knowledge enables patients to make informed decisions about their healthcare. Nurse advocacy creates a safe, informed, and more effective healthcare experience for all.

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Surgical Communication: A Podcast with Gretchen Schwarze, Justin Clapp and Alexis Colley

GeriPal

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.

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New DAISY Ethics Award Celebrates Nurses’ Integrity

Nurse.com

When you’re a nurse, every shift presents the possibility that an ethical dilemma will emerge. Informed consent to treatment. Now, there’s an award that acknowledges and celebrates nurses who demonstrate solid ethical practice. Common ethical issues discussed in research and news reports include: Safeguarding patients’ rights.

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Involving the inner circle: Emily Largent, Anne Rohlfing, Lynn Flint & Anne Kelly

GeriPal

And several times now, I read the notes and it’s just that someone has copied the contact information for someone into that note, but no one has actually contacted them or confirmed that they would want that person present. Emily: Looks like informed decision making around family involvement. Eric: Yeah, I love that too.