Assignment About The Healthcare Professionals

Running head: NURSING
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Answer 1) Informed consent is defend as the permission that is granted to the healthcare
professionals or the nurses before treating the patient and safeguarding that the patient is
aware of the procedure and has a complete knowledge of the entire procedure. The consent
form is signed by the patients as the witness of the declaration made by them. The nursing
intervention that require informed consent form the patients or the client’s includes before
implementing the evidence-based practice method, psychological treatment of a mentally ill
patient and before conducting any peri-operative surgical procedure (Butcher et al., 2018).
Answer 2) The most significant benefit of obtaining an informed consent from the patient that
the patient is aware of the procedure and has the opportunity to actively participate in their
decision-making process during the complete treatment. In circumstances where the patient is
extremely ill and has the minimum chances of survival, it is the sole responsibility of the
healthcare providers and the nurses to take an explicit informed consent from the patient or
any of their family member’s in the form of signature (Halkoaho et al., 2016).
Answer 3) Beneficence is considered as one of the four ethical principles that must be
adapted and practiced by the nurse according to American medical practice. There are various
examples that highlight the conflict between the principle of beneficence and the person’ s
right to choose such as providing vaccinations to the patients without educating him
regarding the effects or purpose of vaccination or the patient refusing to take treatment for
cancer. In such condition the nurses cannot adhere to the patient’s right and also follow the
guidelines for providing effective care. Therefore, in such dilemma the nurses should find
identify the ethically appropriate method for solving the issue and communicate with the
patient and take all the effort in explaining and educating the patient regarding the issues that
might take place during such condition (Pozgar 2019).