Advanced Patient Care
Informed consent Correct Answer: written assent of a patient to recieve a treatment using adequete information.
Autonomy Correct Answer: the patients are to be treated as individuals and informed about procedures to facilitate appropriate dicisions
Simple consent Co...
Advanced Patient Care
Informed consent Correct Answer: written assent of a patient to recieve a treatment using adequete
information.
Autonomy Correct Answer: the patients are to be treated as individuals and informed about procedures
to facilitate appropriate dicisions
Simple consent Correct Answer: Consent is the assent required of a patient for any procedure
Intentional torts Correct Answer: Intentional torts are wrongs resulting from acts done with the
intention of causing harm to another
Assult Correct Answer: Assult is a deliberate act wherein one person threatens to harm another without
consent and the victim feels the attacker has the ability to carry out the threat,
Battery Correct Answer: Battery is touching the victim has not given consent
False imprisionment Correct Answer: unlawful confinement of a person within a fixed area
Unintentional torts Correct Answer: Wrongs resulting from actions that were not intended to do harm
Four ways to deliver information Correct Answer: 1. Patient preference rule
2. Professional custom rule
3. Prudent person rule
4. Sunjective substantial disclosure rule
Patient preference rule Correct Answer: professional tells the patient what they want to know
Professional Custom Rule Correct Answer: Patient gets information normally given to patients in similar
situations
Prudent Person Rule Correct Answer: Need to know basis in order to make a decision regarding
treatment so they may make an informed consent
Subjective Substantial Disclosure Rule Correct Answer: Encourages the physician to disseminate all
information important to the patient.
Combination of rules Correct Answer: Provides information without overburdening the patient
Advance directives Correct Answer: choice made in advance to inform others of the ways in which the
patient wishes to be treated while incompetent
Informed consent must have Correct Answer: diagnosis, treatment, prognosis, risks, alternatives, costs,
rules, duration of incapacitation, names of persons performing the procedure
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