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Informed consent in the elderly: assessing decisional capacity
1Department of Nursing, Angelo State University, San Angelo, TX 76909, USA.
Seminars in Perioperative Nursing
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Informed consent is a process involving both patient rights and professional responsibilities. A nurses discomfort with an elderly person's ability to make a fully informed choice can be a source of ethical conflict. Assessing mental capacity in this vulnerable patient population is a necessary function of respecting patient autonomy.
Keywords:
Professional Patient Relationship