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Faculty of Nursing
Adult care Nursing Department

2 Implied consents:

When the intervention is implicit in the relationship between doctor and patient, and these

individuals share a common goal.

3 Presumed consents:

Consent is presumed when the minimum conditions for obtaining explicit consent are not met,

and there is no objective and reliable information that the patient will object to a specific

intervention, for exam plea, emergency medical situations.

4 Written consents:

In an environment of increasing judicial litigation and sus trained increase in civil and criminal

liability for damages, material evidence must be obtained proving that consent has been obtained.

5 Witnessed consents:

This is an increase in the evidence that consent was effectively delivered. The witness may be a
family member, friend, or health care professional other than the attending physician.

6 Generic consent:

When the amount of information to be provided to the patient or their family is of enormous
proportion, true informed consent is not feasible.

It has been used in the context of performing genetic tests for numerous diseases and

susceptibilities, such as multiplex genetic testing.

7 Family consent:

In some cases, the patient is unable to provide explicit con sent, for example, newborns, children,

mentally ill patients, or patients in a persistent vegetative state.

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