Informed Consent

Course Details:

• Category: Diversity, Ethics, and Cultural Competency; Ethics Series
• Duration: 30 minutes
• Target Audience: All Employees; Providers; Supervisors

Course Overview: Informed consent protects healthcare providers and is essential to the physician's ability to diagnose and treat patients. Informed consent authenticates. validates and legally binds the communication between a patient, the physician, healthcare workers, and the facility.

Training Includes:

• Defining Informed Consent

Types of Informed Consent

• Expressed
• Implied

• Three Components of Informed Consent
• Requirements and Exceptions
• Respecting Personal Beliefs
• Capacity and Assessing Capacity