Nursing Professional Assignment: EMR, Informed Consent, Parents

This nursing assignment explores three key areas within the healthcare field: computer-generated medical records (EMRs), informed consent, and parental rights regarding medical procedures. The assignment analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of EMRs, highlighting their impact on patient care, medication prescription, and efficiency, while also acknowledging potential security and cost concerns. It then delves into the ethical and practical considerations surrounding parental consent for life-saving procedures, recognizing parents' emotional responses and potential knowledge gaps. The assignment also examines the importance of informed consent, emphasizing the healthcare professional's responsibility to provide comprehensive information about treatment procedures, risks, and benefits to enable patients to make informed decisions about their health. The assignment references several studies and articles to support its arguments and provide a well-rounded perspective on these critical aspects of nursing practice.

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Response number 1.
The advantages of computer-generated medical record are as follows (Lemon, Ridder & Khadra,
2019):
1. It improves the quality of life of patient as computer-generated medical record are easier
to be read by the health care professional and tends to lower the error rate and
misinterpretation of the diagnosis.
2. Provide more reliable prescription of medication.
3. It is convenient and efficient to use as it saves time.
4. Patient can easily asses their record anywhere, anytime
The disadvantages of computer-generated medical record are as follows (Netzer, Nabriski &
Roitman, 2019):
1. They are vulnerable to hacking and can have privacy and safety issue with data of patient.
2. Have the potential to store inaccurate information.
3. Maintenances cost of the record are high.
The Implementation of EMR, has positively affected my current role. I can now better
manage the health of the patient and make timely and accurate diagnosis of illness as it provides
all the necessary information of the patient. I can interpret the medication prescription easily and
it has eased my role in administering safe drug to the patient.
Response number 2.
Yes, the parents can refuse to give consent to the lifesaving procedure because, these
procedures are risky to health as adverse effect can lead to death of the patient. It is observed in

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the study of Vercler & Deshpande (2019) that parents are more emotional for their child and
cannot observe their child in harm and or lethal consequence. Sometimes, the parents have lot of
query regarding the lifesaving procedure and due to inadequate knowledge they fail to
understand and hence deny to provide any consent to the healthcare professional for performing
life-saving procedures. The parents are in the state of dilemma and are also anxious regarding the
heath and wellbeing of their child and often hesitate to give any consent to the healthcare
professionals. Although, the refusal of consent from the parents can also affect the child’s health
and put them in sever danger or threat. Hence, it is will be the sole responsibility of the
healthcare professional to explain the health condition of the child to the parents and explain
them the importance of consent that will play a crucial role in their child’s wellbeing (Darlington
et al., 2019). In few circumstances, the parents also feel that they can approach a different
organization or healthcare professional to avoid any surgical mean or treatment and therefore
deny to provide any consent to the healthcare professional regarding lifesaving procedure.
Response number 3.
Informed consent is considered as the procedure of obtaining permission before
performing any treatment or procedure on the patient. Hence, it is very crucial that the physician
provide relevant information regarding the treatment procedure to the patients that will help them
to interpret the risk and advice form the patient regarding their health issue. The adequate
amount of information must be provided and conveyed to the patient depending on their health
issues (Gould, 2019). If the condition of patient is extremely critical and the patient require
immediate care and medical procedure, it is very important that the healthcare professional
disclose all the relevant information like their treatment procedure, total time of operation,
complication of the treatment, side-effect of the treatment, benefits of the treatment and how the

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treatment will assist them in leading a healthy life. According to Waite (2019), the patient must
be aware of all the treatment procedure and information so that they can easily provide their
consent on performing the treatment and take their decision regarding their health condition
accordingly. Hence, obtaining informed consent is very important for all the healthcare
professionals and the patient to achieve high patient outcome and quality of care.

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References
Darlington, A. S., Long-Sutehall, T., Randall, D., Wakefield, C., Robinson, V., & Brierley, J.
(2019). Parents’ experiences of requests for organ and tissue donation: the value of
asking. Archives of disease in childhood, archdischild-2018.
Gould, C. C. (2019). How Democracy Can Inform Consent: Cases of the Internet and Bioethics.
Journal of Applied Philosophy, 36(2), 173-191.
Lemon, C., De Ridder, M., & Khadra, M. (2019). Do Electronic Medical Records Improve
Advance Directive Documentation? A Systematic Review. American Journal of Hospice
and Palliative Medicine®, 36(3), 255-263.
Netzer, D., Nabriski, D., & Roitman, E. (2019). U.S. Patent Application No. 16/073,484.
Vercler, C. J., & Deshpande, S. S. (2019). The Surgical Decision-Making Process: Different
Ethical Approaches. In Surgical Ethics (pp. 193-201). Springer, Cham.
Waite, J. (2019). Capacity, Consent and the Law. The ECT Handbook, 254.