Informed Consent: Basic Principles for Staff Education Video

The Informed Consent Video will educate your staff about the basic regulatory requirements related to providing adequate information to individuals for whom healthcare treatment or procedures are planned. This information should allow those individuals, as patients, to fully and knowledgeably participate in choices about their healthcare. This video and workbook includes:

• Educate your healthcare organization about the fundamental right of patients to make informed decisions about consenting to healthcare treatment and procedures
• Outline the fundamental data elements required to provide the patient with enough information to consent to, or refuse, a treatment or procedure
• Educate staff about their responsibilities as healthcare providers on what key issues the patient must be told about his or her planned procedure and what type of information a nurse or other clinical care provider generally imparts to the patient
• Educate staff about general informed consent related to operative and other procedures
• Educate staff about general informed consent elements related to the transfusion of blood and blood components
• Educate staff about general informed consent elements related to research projects and clinical trials