Offering informed consent and accurately educating a patient/ or their caregivers about medication is an essential competency for all prescribers to master.

Prompt

Offering informed consent and accurately educating a patient/ or their caregivers about medication is an essential competency for all prescribers to master. There are many created consent forms available for the prescriber to offer the patient and their family, however, the prescriber should always offer a verbal explanation as well.  The forms and pamphlets can be given during the appointment for the patient to review at a later time.  It is important to recognize that the majority of patients do not have medical knowledge and have low literacy. For this reason, when they review created consent forms, they may be quickly become overwhelmed, confused, or fearful about treatment. It is the prescriber’s duty to offer full informed consent that encompasses education about the medication, an explanation of the medication’s mechanism of action, the possible side effects, and the goal of the medication in that particular patient. 

In this assignment, you will practice giving informed consent for an antipsychotic and obtaining consent for the treatment plan. Even if you have no plans of prescribing these psychotropic medications, you will still complete this assignment.  

You will utilize Zoom and/or Youtube to record and then submit the link to your assignment. You may choose any first (1st) or second (2nd) generation antipsychotic to give informed consent about seek consent for treatment.  

***However, please see below for specific instructions on whether you will be 1) seeking consent to begin an antipsychotic in an adolescent 2) seeking consent for a LAI (long acting injectable), or  3) seeking consent to begin an antipsychotic in a geriatric patient. Your audience may be the patient or the patient’s caregiver. Discuss what the medication will be targeting (mechanism of action for specific s/sx), the dose you plan to start, key side effects/consideration for the patient, and monitoring or tests that need to take place, and alternatives.  Lastly, let the patient know how soon they will need to have a follow-up appointment and what to expect in terms of how often they will follow-up for an appointment after initiation of treatment. (“Risks, benefits, side effects, monitoring, alternatives and follow-up”). 

If your LAST NAME starts with A through I please use the following circumstance: Consent for a LAI (any age patient) 

If your LAST NAME starts with J through Q please use the following circumstance: Consent in a geriatric patient   

If your LAST NAME starts with R through Z please use the following circumstance: Consent in an adolescent patient C 

 Give one (1) response to a peer for each of the other scenarios, for a total of one (1) initial post and two (2) responses. 

 Example:  Student A: speech is Consent in an adolescent patient; response one (1) to Consent for a LAI (any age patient), response two (2) Consent in a geriatric patient. 

 Instructions:

• If you would like to use Zoom, please see the Zoom-quick start and Zoom tutorial for more detailed instructions. After your recording is complete, follow these instructions to create a private, unlisted YouTube video (Links to an external site.). You will need the YouTube video website/URL for this discussion. Submit your YouTube video website/URL (link) to this discussion page. The best way to do this is to copy and paste the website/URL for the YouTube video into a Word document and then post the Word document. Your instructor and peers will access your video via the link. 

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with in-text citations and corresponding references in APA format. 

Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria. 

Estimated time to complete: 2 hours 

• Respond (“comment”) to two (2) peers. Give one (1) response to a peer for each of the other scenarios, for a total of one (1) initial post and two (2) responses. 

Example:  Student A: speech is Consent in an adolescent patient; response one (1) to Consent for a LAI (any age patient), response two (2) Consent in a geriatric patient. 

• • Responses are also audio recordings and should be no longer than 2 minutes. At least one scholarly reference should be included with each response. When citing a reference, simply say it (e.g. “…in the Journal of Psychiatric Nurses, an article titled Helping Patients Recovery published in 2019, discussed the importance of…”) 

  Discussion Peer/Participation Prompt [Due Sunday] 

Please respond to at least 2 of your peer’s posts with substantive comments using the following steps: 

• • Substantive comments add to the discussion and provide your fellow students with information that will enhance the learning environment. 
  • References and citations should conform to APA standards. 
  • Remember: Please respect the opinions of others, even if their views differ. In other words, disagree professionally and respectfully. 
  • Plagiarism is never acceptable – give credit when credit is due – cite your sources. 

Responses need to address all components of the question, demonstrate critical thinking and analysis and include peer-reviewed journal evidence to support the student’s position. 

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with in-text citations and corresponding references in APA format. 

Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets the criteria. Collaboration points will be forfeited if you fail to meet the response post guidelines. 

Estimated time to complete: 1 hour