Clinicians have an "affirmative duty" to disclose relevant information.

What is NOT one of the four C's of informed consent?

Person's ability to understand about a condition/treatment, expressing a choice, appreciation, and reasoning about proposed treatment options.

A legal judgement, informed by an assessment of capacity and relating to an individual's legal right to make his or her own decisions.

Patient's must be provided candid and clear information, at a comprehensible language and level. Expected course, risk/benefits, probabilites/uncertainties, alternatives and clinical recommendations.

Voluntary, without coercion, manipulation, persuasion or guilt.

What is NOT correctly matched description to the PARQ acronym?

If _____ is compromised, need for surrogacy may arise.

Parental consent is needed for minors seeking STI treatment, pregnancy related testing or behavioral assistance.

What type of consent is preferred because it provides concrete evidence of an exchange of information with its associated assent?

What type of consent is used under emergent circumstances (unconscious or otherwise temporarily incapacitated)?

What type of consent is obtained on hospital admission for routine testing, treatment and touching of healthcare professional?

Requires clinician disclose information that another clinician with the same skill-set and practicing in similar community would disclose.

More patient-centric, provides information that a reasonable person would consider significant to make an informed consent.

Tailored to specific needs of the patient, must meet legal requirements while also including the moral/ethical features

What standard of disclosure is used the most?

An action for a "touching" to which the patient did not agree. Performing anything other than what is consented for.

Not sufficiently informing patient of risks with potential complications of procedure. Composed of 4 elements: duty, breach of duty, injury, casual relationship

Negligence Nondisclosure: The requirement that a physician act as a minimally competent, similarly trained, reasonable physician in similar circumstances would act when disclosing information.

Negligence Nondisclosure: Failure to meet the minimal standard of care.

Negligence Nondisclosure: The harm that befalls the patient.

Negligence Nondisclosure: A casual relationship between the breach and the harm is shown when the patient reasonably declares that they would have refused to undergo procedure had they known the true nature of the risks.

What is the single most important measure to reduce transmission of microorganisms.

Anything that can be directly transmitted by skin-to-skin contact or indirectly while providing care. (MRSA, VRE, C diff, Scabies). Private room preferred. Gloves, gown and face protection.

Respiratory secretions like couhging or sneezing. Remain suspended in air for limited periods; 3-6 ft from source. (Influenza, N. meningitidis, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, pertussis, rubella). Wear surgical masks for providers and patient.

Particles of respiratory secretions that can remain suspended in air for extended periods. (TB, measles, varicella, smallpox, COVID-19, SARS) Private room with negative air pressure. N95 respirator mask, gloves, gown, face protections.

Absence of mircoorganisms that cause disease. Most commonly applied in the context of techniques and procedures.

Being free of all living microorganisms. Most commonly used to describe environments and instruments that have been clean.

Complete sterialization of skin is the main goal of sterile technique.

What is NOT true about principles of sterile technique?