- Title
- Surgical consent and the importance of a substitute decision-maker : a case study
- Creator
- Gilbert, Julia; Gillespie, Brigid
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Text; Journal article; Review
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/191538
- Identifier
- vital:17835
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.26550/2209-1092.1011
- Identifier
- ISSN:1448-7535 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- At law, all individuals are presumed to have the legal capacity to provide consent or refusal of treatment unless there are clinical indications of cognitive impairment. Once concerns are raised regarding the ability of an individual to provide valid consent for a surgical procedure, the use of a substitute decision-maker may be necessary. In this paper, we present an analysis of a clinical case study to illustrate the principles of valid consent. As part of the analysis, we discuss the issues relating to obtaining valid consent for an operative surgical procedure from an elderly client with obvious cognitive impairment. We also explore the role of a substitute decision-maker to obtain the requisite valid consent.
- Publisher
- Australian College of Perioperative Nurses
- Relation
- ACORN Vol. 30, no. 1 (2017), p. 15-19
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright @ Australian College of Perioperative Nurses (ACORN)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 4205 Nursing
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