PATIENT CONSENT

Patient Consent in Mental Health and Advances in Clinical Practice



Patient Consent in Mental Health and Advances in Clinical Practice

Introduction

Healthcare and wellness of an individual is his or her basic right. Everyone, no matter to which culture, class and race he or she belongs to deserves a proper system that provide healthcare benefits. Communication between patients and practitioners is a central part of health care. Effective communication is essential, for example, for practitioners to understand the nature of a patient's problem and the patient's perception about his or her medical treatment. Explaining how subsequent illness might be averted or prevalent illness treated also requires effective communication. Failure to communicate effectively has numerous adverse effects, including patients' lack of understanding about the results of tests they have undergone, false and failed reassurance, non-adherence, and longer lengths of stay in hospital. Psychiatry's function is to treat the mentally ill. What guides the physiotherapist in his decisions, it is the act of care he owes to his patient. Quality requires an ethical requirement that is knowledge and philosophical references, moral, techniques based on clearly stated will somehow be acts that are in harmony with the speech. Care to mentally ill based on multiple paradoxes the main one being that of alienation: "Since he is mentally reached the mentally ill could not consent, but his recovery is based on care accepted and followed in which it participates voluntarily so to which he consents.

Health Practice of Patient Consent

The patient consent is known as “the legal principle that governs the patient's ability to accept or reject individual medical interventions designed to diagnose or treat an illness.” This can be obtained only before the start of the research and all the possible ricks should be properly explained to the participants (Richardson & Nash, 2006, pp. 45). The institutional review board is accountable to protect the participants from loss and risk of personal dignity and rights. Specific considerations that must be practiced include proper communication with the patient to ensure that there is no miscommunication between the doctor and the patient about the medical treatment. Since, problems in communicating between health care professionals and patients have been widely documented over several decades. Patient consent can be defined as the method through which the patient agrees to take part in a treatment based on access to all relevant and easily digestible information about the meaning of his or her participation, especially in regard of harms and benefits (Homan, 1991, pp. 35).

The purpose of patient consent is to enable the patient to consider the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed medical treatment in order to decide to undergo or to refuse treatment. Proper use of this principle prevents or reduces the potential for error, negligence, coercion and disappointment and encourages the doctor to self-criticism. However, the goals of a doctor are, in fact,” to assert the autonomy to the patient, promoting their right to self-determination, to protect and respect their status as human beings and not as objects” (Homan, ...