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Informed Consent

What do you think informed consent is?  Can you find a state that has an informed consent statute and describe what it requires?

………Answer Preview…….Informed is the legal procedure that seeks to ensure that a patient, research participant or client is aware of the costs and risks involved in the procedure or treatment. For instance, in a healthcare situation the doctor provides the appropriate information to the patient so that he/she can make a voluntary decision about the treatment. Some of the elements of the informed consent are; informing the patient the nature and benefits of the treatment, the impending risks as well as the potential alternatives (Turnbull 2011).  The most essential objective of informed consent is to ensure that the patient is given a chance as an informed participant in his/her decision. The information given to the patient should ……………….

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