Informed Consent and Culturally Diverse Indigenous Population

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Introduction:
Indigenous population pose a significant risk to the health care delivery due to the
stark differences that they reflect in their culture and tradition. It has to be mentioned in this
context that the culturally diverse patient groups often experience a significant inequality in
the care experience and delivery (Hall, Prochazka & Fink, 2012). One great aspect of care
delivery which has encountered considerable challenges when involving the indigenous
community is the informed consent, an integral component of patient centred care delivery
and ethical aspects of care. This presentation will allow me to illustrate the aspect of
informed consent and how it applies to the culturally diverse population of indigenous
individuals.
Informed consent:
Informed consent can be defined in the health care context as the process of acquiring
the permission from a patient respectfully before conducting a healthcare intervention or
assessment activity. However, in the aspects of health care, the informed consent is also used
as the implementation of an ethical course of activity which allows the professional to take
permission before he or she can disclose any personal information (Grady, 2015).
It has to be mentioned that informed consent has become of the greatest aspects of
clinical treatment which is practiced all across the globe and is a vital component of the
contemporary medical practice. Delving deeper into the ideation of the informed consent, it
has to be mentioned that this particular component is associated with three overarching
components of care delivery procedure, legal, ethical, and administrative compliance.
Here I would like to explain the fact that in context of legal aspects, informed consent
allows the patient to have a mandatory right to claim the choices and preferences. Hence, the

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care professional taking part in the process of informed consent will have the chance to allow
the patient to have a priority basis of decision making power to either allow or refuse any
care activity (Faden, Beauchamp & Kass, 2014).
This also is overlapped with the ethical aspects of the care delivery context, it has to
be mentioned that the patients have an autonomous right decision making and take equal part
in the establishment of the defined goals. The informed consent automatically co-relates both
of the aspects in care setting or scenario. Elaborating more, while asking for informed
consent, patients are asked whether or not they want to take part in the care activities. Hence,
this particular activity immediately takes into consideration giving the patient autonomous
decision making power and helps in re-orienting the care goal setting into a more patient
defined genre.
Informed consent has multidimensional benefits, and administrative compliance is the
next most effective benefit of this ethico-legal component. Yoshizawa et al. (2017) have
discussed that informed consent is a written legal document that takes into consideration that
is a proof of all the parties being involved with the procedure. Along with that the informed
consent document also allows the care professionals to have an effective safeguard that
allows nominal fulfilment of the ethical and legal requirements of care delivery procedure.
Informed consent for aboriginals:
Informed consent is an ethical and legal requirement for conducting any research or
treating any patient in the clinical setting. Informed consent is an inevitable requirement
before any procedure of diagnosis or treatment is undertaken in the clinical setting. It
provides the liberty to every participant for deciding whether to refuse or accept the
recommended treatment. However, obtaining informed consent and maintaining
confidentially of the patient become increasingly challenging while treating the indigenous