Abstract
Nurses have a legal duty to ensure and obtain informed consent from their patients before undertaking anyexamination or procedure. Informed consent allows patients to make their decisions with their healthcareproviders, this collaborative decision making process is mandatory in medical practice. A cross sectional study onknowledge and awareness on informed consent among nurses working in a tertiary care teaching hospital wasconducted at Hyderabad, Telangana, 200 nurses working in various departments of the hospital were participatedin this study, a questionnaire was prepared in regard to informed consent and assessed their knowledge levels bygrading.The data was taken into Excel sheet and statistic evaluation was done by using MS Excel software. We found 67.7%are having awareness on informed consent whereas 32.3% are unaware. Similar results were observed in studiesconducted in India and abroad, periodical workshops and continuous medical education programs can achievebetter results.
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