Standard #10 Informed Consent addresses the broad aspects of informed
consent, although the standards do not state specifically what
procedures do require or do not require a written, signed document.
Please note that informed consent is required for everything we do.
But a signed piece of paper is only one small component of the
informed consent process. Lynn
At 2:03 PM -0500 4/5/06, Adams, Lorim wrote:
I'm an avid reader of the list serve and learn alot from the
discussions held here, thank you so much!
Okay now to my questions (which may have been covered in the past- not sure)
1. At your particular institutions are you obtaining informed
consents for midline placements or treating them the same as a PIV
placement? (which i feel they cannot be compared to) Also could
someone guide me to INS standards which do or do not support such
consent. We are getting conflicting information at my hospital. I
work in an outpatient ambulatory infusion center associated with a
hosptial but not on the physcial campus.
2. How are any of you working in outpatient ambulatory infusion
centers obtaining Informed Consent for Blood transfusions (including
a physcian signature)? We may receive a call from the MD's office
for referral based on labs drawn the day before. The patient is at
home and is called by MD's office and then sent to us for
transfusion. Orders are faxed in and the patient may not even see
the MD at all prior to transfusion. Upon arrival to our infusion
center we have been obtaining a consent and proceeding with
transfusion, as waiting for a physcian signature on the consent
could delay the transfusion for days. Any input would be greatly
appreciated.
Michele Adams RN, BSN
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Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RNC, CRNI
Lynn Hadaway Associates, Inc.
126 Main Street, PO Box 10
Milner, GA 30257
http://www.hadawayassociates.com
office 770-358-7861
