Informed consent: the information component.
Patients are asked to give informed consent for both treatment and research protocols. Yet, is their consent really informed? This article focuses on the information component of informed consent. The author discusses informed consent as it relates to the ethical principle of respect for autonomy, presents nurses' perceptions of informed consent, and makes several recommendations that nurses can use to ensure that consent is informed.
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D032882:Comprehension; D030881:Disclosure; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D035842:Research Subjects; D018570:Risk Assessment