Informed Consent
This is when informed consent is required for mental health treatment in an outpatient setting.
What is Always
This is approved for use in all charting without requiring a detailed definition.
What is an approved abbreviation?
This type of professional determines a patient’s capacity to make healthcare decisions.
Who is a qualified medical professional?
According to CMH policy and ORS 127.635, this person has first priority in making medical decisions when a patient lacks capacity.
Who is the designated healthcare representative or attorney-in-fact?
This medical order form is used to document a patient’s end-of-life treatment preferences and must be signed by a qualified medical professional.
What is the POLST form?
This describes when informed consent is required for medical treatment in an outpatient setting.
What is for any procedure or treatment that carries potential risks, benefits, or alternatives?
This must accompany any abbreviation that is not on the approved list in documentation.
What is a detailed definition
This person is responsible for ensuring informed consent is completed when a patient has limited decision-making capacity.
Who is the provider?
If a patient made their treatment wishes known while they had capacity, this is what must happen per ORS 127.760(4).
What is those wishes must be honored by the hospital and the healthcare representative?
This type of document is offered to patients who do not have one on file and can be explained or completed with the help of Care Management.
What is an Advance Directive?
This is when informed consent can be waived in an emergency or crisis situation.
What is temporarily?
This abbreviation represents "Activities of Daily Living."
What is ADL?
True or False: SDOH is an approved abbreviation in our current policy.
What is false?
When no legally authorized surrogate can be identified, this CMH group is responsible for guiding informed consent decisions for medically necessary treatment.
What is the Ethics Committee?
If a patient lacks capacity and has no Advance Directive or POLST available, this person may make decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment, based on known preferences or best interest.
Who is a surrogate decision-maker?
This is the age at which a minor in Oregon can consent to medical treatment without parental consent or knowledge.
What is 15?
The list of approved abbreviations can currently be found in this policy.
What is the Social Work Documentation Policy?
This yearly ritual consumes caregivers with annoyance, requires awkward role-plays, proving you know how to fill out forms, and remembering the most obscure information from orientation.
What is completing annual competencies?
In Oregon, this group can make healthcare decisions if there is no appointed healthcare representative and no one higher in the hierarchy is available, and they all agree.
Who are the adult children of the patient?
Before surgery, this provider must review and clarify the patient's DNR status and discuss modifications, suspensions, or limits based on the patient’s goals and values.
Who is the anesthetist?
These are the three key elements that must be communicated to a patient when obtaining informed consent.
What are a description of the proposed intervention, risks, and alternatives?
This is what PHQ-9 stands for.
What is the Patient Health Questionnaire-9?
This color armband is used at CMH to indicate a patient's DNR status.
What is purple?
These are two of the four medical treatments that a surrogate decision-maker cannot authorize without additional legal processes—and because they fall within the scope of the OB/GYN clinic, a request for either would likely result in a consult to Saren.
What are sterilization and abortion
When there is disagreement among concerned parties about end-of-life care, this type of consult may be requested to support impartial and sensitive decision-making.
What is a clinical ethics consultation?