A comparison of surgical patients’ and nurses’ perceptions of patients’ autonomy, privacy and informed consent in nursing interventions

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chryssoula Lemonidou ◽  
Anastasios Merkouris ◽  
Helena Leino-Kilpi ◽  
Maritta Välimäki ◽  
Theo Dassen ◽  
...  
2003 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Schopp ◽  
Maritta Välimäki ◽  
Helena Leino-Kilpi ◽  
Theo Dassen ◽  
Maria Gasull ◽  
...  

The focus of this article is on elderly patients’ and nursing staff perceptions of informed consent in the care of elderly patients/residents in five European countries. The results suggest that patients and nurses differ in their views on how informed consent is implemented. Among elderly patients the highest frequency for securing informed consent was reported in Finland; the lowest was in Germany. In contrast, among nurses, the highest frequency was reported in the UK (Scotland) and the lowest in Finland. In a comparison of patients’ and nurses’ perceptions, nurses had more positive views than patients in all countries except Finland. Patients with less need for nursing interventions in Greece and Spain gave their consent less often. The German and Greek patients were older, and the results also point to an association between this and their lower frequency of giving consent. In Spain, patients who were married or who had a family member or friend to look after their personal affairs were more likely to be included in the group whose consent was sought less often. This is the fourth of a set of five articles published together in this issue of Nursing Ethics in which the results of this comparative research project are presented.


Pflege ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anja Schopp ◽  
Theo Dassen ◽  
Maritta Välimäki ◽  
Helena Leino-Kilpi ◽  
Gerd Bansemir ◽  
...  

Ziel dieser Untersuchung war die Autonomie, Privatheit und die Umsetzung des Prinzips der «informierten Zustimmung» aus der Perspektive des institutionell zu betreuenden, älteren Menschen zu beschreiben. Die Untersuchung ist ein Teil des durch die EU-Kommission unterstützten BIOMED 2 Projektes «Patient’s autonomy and privacy in nursing interventions»1. Interviewdaten (n = 95) wurden in deutschen Kliniken der Geriatrie und Pflegeheimen gesammelt. Ergebnisse zeigten, dass die Teilnehmer in geringem Maß selbstbestimmte Entscheidungen treffen konnten. Das Prinzip der «informierten Zustimmung» wurde wenig umgesetzt. Ihre Privatheit sahen die Teilnehmer in Mehrbettzimmern sowie in Situationen des Ankleidens und bei der Verrichtung der Ausscheidungen nicht respektiert. Es ist anzunehmen, dass ältere Menschen wegen Informationsdefiziten, durch ihren Hilfsbedarf und durch die festgelegten Organisationsstrukturen der Pflegeeinrichtungen eine passive Krankenrolle übernehmen. Es wäre denkbar, dass die Autonomie der älteren Menschen gefördert werden könnte, wenn die Pflegekräfte sie in der Rolle des Fürsprechers bei selbstbestimmten Entscheidungen unterstützen würden. Bei den pflegerischen Interventionen würde die Umsetzung des Prinzips der «informierten Zustimmung» sowohl die Autonomie als auch die Respektierung der Privatheit fördern. Es ist außerdem anzunehmen, dass durch Flexibilisierung der Organisationsstrukturen der Pflegeeinrichtungen die Autonomie und Lebensqualität der älteren Menschen gefördert werden könnte.


2021 ◽  
Vol 108 (Supplement_6) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Mamun ◽  
E Charles

Abstract Aim Informed consent requires all material risks to be discussed, as per Montgomery vs Lanarkshire 2015. This audit was based on the latest RCS England guidelines on consenting patients. We aimed to assess our adherence and to introduce standardised procedure-specific consent stickers to ensure the highest standards of care, which were reproducible. Method We undertook two retrospective case note reviews of patients undergoing emergency and elective general surgery procedures from 01/01-15/06 and 01/10-30/11 in 2020. RCS Good Surgical Practice 3.5.1 “Consent” details the standards for this audit. We included patients undergoing appendicectomy, cholecystectomy, incision and drainage and hernia repair (inguinal, umbilical, and incisional). We did not audit laparotomy due to variability in procedural risks precluding a specific sticker and we excluded patients unable to give consent. Results Our initial audit of 82 patients highlighted the variability between practitioners in the material risk discussion. Different patients undergoing the same procedures were being consented differently with significant omissions. We designed procedure specific-consent stickers to be used when consenting to address this imbalance and made these stickers available on surgical wards. A re-audit of 50 patients showed increase from 41% to 88% in documentation of material risks. While only 34% of the audited consent forms featured the stickers, those forms that did have the stickers on had 100% material risk documentation. Conclusions We saw an improvement in material risk discussion by implementing procedure-specific consent stickers. This supports the growing need for standardising consent across General Surgery to reduce variability. We will next aim to design laparotomy stickers.


2010 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 1041-1052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hellene Y.M. Yiu ◽  
Wai-Tong Chien ◽  
May How-Lin Lui ◽  
Bai Qin

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 266-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Cavendish

The assessment, diagnosis, and management of abdominal pain (AP) in children is a complex and challenging process. The factors that contribute to this complexity are the varied etiologies of AP in children that may be biological and/or psychological, nurses’ perceptions of AP, manifestations of AP in children, and the lack of a standardized language to describe AP. In this descriptive study, 64 school nurses completed an investigator-developed survey to determine the usefulness of standardized language in describing AP. This study identified the most frequently used assessments to document complaints of AP; activities from the Nursing Interventions Classification “pain management” intervention used to treat AP; and relevant indicators used by school nurses from the Nursing Outcomes Classification “pain level” and “symptom severity” outcomes. Use of standardized language to document nursing care will make nursing’s contribution to the care of children with AP more visible and provide data that will identify and monitor trends of AP in the school setting.


2021 ◽  
pp. 103195
Author(s):  
Muhammad Asharib Arshad ◽  
Naureen Omar ◽  
Muhammad Zaid Amjad ◽  
Khalid Bashir ◽  
Muhammad Irfan ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aap Apipudin ◽  
Heni Marliany ◽  
Arif Nandang

Procedure preoperative actions in some hospitals have developed such reference to the needs of patients who will do the surgery. This procedure is expected to become a paramedic guidelines in an effort to prepare the patient preoperatively, so the preoperative preparation can be done well. The purpose of this study is find a picture of the management of the patient's preoperative preparation in hospital.This research use descriptive research. The population in this study were surgical patients in the General Hospital of Ciamis. The sampling technique by means of quota sampling a total sample of 30 people.It is known that the management of physical preparation in the patient's preoperative 83.3% implemented, supporting the management of the patient's preoperative preparation 100% implemented, preparation Management informed consent on the patient's preoperative 100% implemented and management of mental preparation / psychic on the patient's preoperative 100% implemented. The overall results showed that the majority of the category held as many as 25 people (83.3%) Keywords: Management, Preoperative


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