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Foundation of Professional Nursing Practice
The hospitalized client with a chronic cough is scheduled for bronchoscopy. The nurse is tasks to bring the informed consent document into the client's room for a signature. The client asks the nurse for details of the procedure and demands an explanation why the process of informed consent is necessary. The nurse responds that informed consent means:
The patient agrees to a procedure ordered by the physician even if the client does not understand what the outcome will be.
The patient releases the physician from all responsibility for the procedure.
The immediate family may make decision against the patient’s will.
The physician must give the client or surrogates enough information to make health care judgments consistent with their values and goals.
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The physician must give the client or surrogates enough information to make health care judgments consistent with their values and goals.
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