demonstrate your developing professional knowledge and behaviours related to the legal responsibilities to yourself and your patients in relation to gaining informed consent

demonstrate your developing professional attitudes and behaviours related to ethical, legal and social responsibilities by showing respect for patients, staff, students and other dental team colleagues, including maintaining confidentiality of patient information

understand the importance of gaining consent, the types of consent and the principles of gaining informed consent

how to obtain consent for procedures

Provide an example to explain how informed consent impacts your role and how it applies in community services.

15. The perioperative nurse’s primary responsibility in the process of informed consent is:*1 pointA. Discuss possible complications of proposed procedureB. Provide the client with details of proposed surgical procedureC. Ensure that the anesthetist/anaesthesiologist has met with the patient before the procedureD. Advocate patient to ensure that the client is given necessary information to give consent16. Nurses assume complementary and shared responsibilities in decision making and problem solving relevant to patient care. In such situation, the nurse is performing the proactive role of being a:*1 pointA. CaregiverB. CommunicatorC. AdvocateD. Collaborator17. This role of nurses in healthcare involves implementing interventions that help overcome resistance and facilitate positive growth and development:*1 pointA. Change agentB. AdvocateC. CaregiverD. Communicator18. In the discharge of his duties, Nurse Gelo ensures that autonomy and self-determination of the patient are safeguarded. This role of the nurse in healthcare is known as:*1 pointA. CollaboratorB. AdvocateC. Change agentD. Communicator19. Circumstances such as floods, fire earthquakes and accidents falls under this doctrine and nurses who fail to render service during these circumstances are not held negligent.*1 pointA. Res ipsa loquiturB. Force majeureC. Respondeat superiorD. Epikia20. A hospital was found liable for the negligence of its nurses when they failed to adhere to the explicit policy it had established that bedrails were to be raised at all times for a particular category of high-risk patients. What doctrine was used by the court in this civil case?*1 pointA. Res ipsa loquiturB. Force majeureC. Respondeat superiorD. Epikia21. Which situation may lead to a legal action for assault?*1 pointA. A nurse threatens a patient with inserting a tube to feed the patient if the patient does not eat all the food on a meal tray.B. A nurse administers a medication that the patient has refused by telling the patient that it is different than the refused medication.C. A nurse uses a restraint when a patient attempts to leave the hospital before the primary health-care provider writes a discharge order.D. A nurse is heard by a patient’s relative telling another nurse on an elevator that the patient contracted hepatitis C from IV drug use when, in fact, the patient contracted the disease via a blood transfusion.22. The Code of Ethics for Filipino Nurses is promulgated under which resolution?*1 pointA. BON Resolution No. 425, Series of 2003B. BON Resolution No. 220, Series of 2004C. BON Resolution No. 112, Series of 2005D. BON Resolution No. 22, Series of 200923. Lactated Ringer’s Solution is what type of solution?*1 pointA. IsotonicB. HypotonicC. HypertonicD. Isokinetic24. Which of the following is not an isotonic solution?*1 pointA. D5 1/2NSSB. 0.9% NaClC. LRD. D5W25. A client who has had a thoracic surgery has a chest tube connected to a water-seal drainage system attached to suction. When excessive bubbling is identified in the water seal chamber the nurse should:*1 pointA. check the system for air leaksB. “strip” the chest tube catheterC. decrease the amount of suction pressureD. recognize that the system is functioning correctly26. The most accurate parameter to assess a patient's fluid status is:*1 pointA. weightB. temperatureC. blood pressureD. urine output