Topics About 'Consent'.

I'm a nursing student and my professor was performing a bed bath, linen change, and wound care with our class on a patient who was unresponsive and obese. It was difficult cleaning and moving the patient, and the patient wasn't alert. It took 6 of us...

Hello all! We've recently had some arguments about informed consent for endoscopy procedures mainly in the inpatient setting. Sometimes our patients are poor prep & we need to rescope them the next day. Because it's often less than 24 hour...

Hi all- I'm new to the hospital I'm currently working at in CA and I've had an issue with the way this place does next of kin consents. A lot of the doctors will call a family member on their own time, then put in an order for RN to get consent, at w...

New school nurse in small public elementary. There seems to be some cliques of staff/parents/community that "have each others backs". As an outsider, I don't know who is tied in with whom at this point. I ran into a situation that I would like some a...

Patient complained in post op phone call that he did not give his "consent" for Fentanyl in pacu for post op pain. He was my pt and did not object when instructed what I was giving him, what it is for, when it will start to work and how. I was called...

In my experience any informed consent obtained over the telephone requires 2 medical professionals witnessing. I am in California at an appointment only clinic doing vaccinations For 16 and 17 year old patients , what is the law for obtain...

I am sort of a new grad nurse. My first job was working night shift 8hrs at a behavioral health clinic and we mostly did nothing but push meds and chart about them. My position was psych nurse but there were also medical nurses who did other things s...

My PICU recently decided that we will be offering flu and pneumococcal vaccines to all of our eligible patients. This is a state requirement to reduce the number of children who are not vaccinated. The policy itself is fine. However, what is concer...

He arrived the way they always do, flat on his back behind the bars of the bedrails, one leg tied to a ten-pound sandbag that dangled over the end of his bed like a fishing buoy. Not surprisingly, Mr. H's first words were about the frigid temperature...

I'm working in a non-teaching hospitals radiology department. Every procedure we do requires consent. In my past life of working in the ICU either the resident had to call the family for consent ahead of time or get the order for it to be deemed emer...

Who gets surgical consent forms signed? In my experience, the nurse has always been the one to get the pt to sign, but now that I'm coming back to the hospital, I'm hearing that the Dr is supposed to be the one to obtain the signature.

My brother is in the hospital. He had his money, prescribed marijuana, phone, and prescribed pain pills inside his pillowcase that is on the pillow he is using. A nurse comes in while he is sleeping and he woke up to her messing with his pillow. When...

I've been a nurse in the same specialty for almost 4 years and have worked at a few different hospitals in a large city. I like to think I have learned to communicate effectively and respectfully with my coworkers and our doctors. Super long story sh...

I had a pt today with a really gnarly compound dislocation/fx that I knew from the get-go would be sent to the OR. By the time I got the wording of the consent from the surgeon the pt had been medicated with two different narcotics. I've never been c...

Can an Rn legally take a patient's tylenol#3 without their consent? Lets say you have a mentally ill patient who was formerly conserved but not anymore. His judgement may not be sound but he is technically competent (but questionable). If the nurse i...

I work in home care. Normally a physician will send our company a referral for home care. We contact the patient, ask to go to their home for the initial Start-of-Care visit, then start services at that agreed upon visit. Recently our intake team sai...

You may recall the July 2017 case of Alex Wubbels, a Salt Lake City nurse who was arrested for refusing a police officer's command to draw blood from a comatose auto accident victim without a physician's order or warrant. The uproar from the incident...

I have recently returned to working on the medical floor. I have been a nurse since 1985, so I am not new, and I try to stay current with new surgeries, tests, and procedures. At the facility where I currently work, the doctor's and anesthesiologis...

OK...I just need input here. We did an Anterior Hip Replacement and the consent only said Total Hip Replacement (no indication of anterior approach). I ticked off the Dr when I asked that "Anterior" be added to the consent. His argument was either...

I live in AZ and I am trying to work through a consent agreement with the Ohio BON. I am 10 months into a 12 month agreement to do random drug screens among a few other stipulations. I flew from AZ to OH and of course was chosen to do a random drug...

Does anyone have an existing consent form for telehealth appointments? I am in a high school so I am anticipating students doing telehealth during school hours is going to become more common. I've been working on creating one and this is what...

I've been a Private, Self-Employed Independent Consultant/Advisor for Families (Parents) of Infants in Neonatal ICU for ~ 15 years. I am the Owner. (No supervision over me). I want to start working part-time in a Hospital, but I am being asked for "M...

I am a DON at an ASC in Nevada that specializes in pain management. Our pre-op nurses review informed consent for procedure as well as the anesthesia consent (sedation is performed by CRNA's 99.5% of the cases). I have a CRNA that also works with a ...

Please help me. My boss is once again insisting that I get our clients to sign med consents. I have told him before that only the MDs can legally give/get informed consent and therefore they have the clients sign consents for any psychoactive drug .A...

As OR nurses, we can occasionally run into ethical dilemmas. How do you deal with them? This is an actual event that occurred. I'll share the details of how it was handled after a few posters weigh in. You are the nurse who is circulating in a genera...