Pro-Informed Consent

PRO-INFORMED CONSENT

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University Medics and nurses are guided by the Hippocratic Oath to exercise dutiful care for their patients . Due to its sensitive nature , medical profession has to be governed by a number of ethical and legal principles to ensure that it is carried out within a set framework of standards . The principle of Informed Consent was coined in the bid to protect patients and ensure their participation in the decisions concerning their bodies Informed consent according to Berg et al (2001 , 3 ) refers

to legal rules that prescribe behaviors and other healthcare professionals in their interactions with patients and provide for penalties under given circumstances , if physicians deviate from those expectations ' Indeed informed consent is all about obtaining a patients consent in regard to a certain treatment procedure after having duly informed him or her of the consequences of such a procedure . Mark and Frank (2005 , 824 ) agree by defining informed consent as the process of obtaining a clients permission to engage in various treatment and related activities

The issue of informed consent has become a subject of immense controversy pitting those who do not see it as a necessity on one hand and those that belief it is important if the rights of a patient are to be upheld . The position of this is that patients are entitled to be fully informed by the health professionals to help them in making a reasonable decision over a certain treatment or any related procedure

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