Decision Making Software and Informed Choice
CU2943 Leanne Woods 28/07/14
4.2/ 4.3 Explain the principle of informed choice and how issues of individual capacity may affect this.
Informed choice; Informed Choice involves the exchange and understanding of relevant information so that a knowledgeable, reasoned and un-pressured decision can be made by the health care Consumer, or the Consumer’s delegated representative, who has the competence and legal capacity to make such choices:
Informed Choice means that families can make knowledgeable decisions, which reflect their own culture, values and views. It is based on access to comprehensive, unbiased and evidence-based information, about the full range of options.
An approach to service provision that promotes Informed Choice is one in which:
Service providers adopt open and flexible policies that effectively endorse a range of possibilities
Services and professionals make no value judgements about one option over another and this stance is reflected in their strategic decision-making and resourcing
Families are supported to reach decisions in ways that are sensitive to their individual strengths, resources, needs and experience
Informed Choice is not seen as a one-off decision but as an ongoing process.
There are certainly quite a few individual capacities that may affect people being able to make an informed choice these include, Physical disabilities – deafness, blindness and other various special needs also if you are living in a country which is not your native language this can create barriers to making informed choices as you will more than likely be unable to understand all the relevant information you may need to make such informed choice.
In TLC we try to gather as much
4.2/ 4.3 Explain the principle of informed choice and how issues of individual capacity may affect this.
Informed choice; Informed Choice involves the exchange and understanding of relevant information so that a knowledgeable, reasoned and un-pressured decision can be made by the health care Consumer, or the Consumer’s delegated representative, who has the competence and legal capacity to make such choices:
Informed Choice means that families can make knowledgeable decisions, which reflect their own culture, values and views. It is based on access to comprehensive, unbiased and evidence-based information, about the full range of options.
An approach to service provision that promotes Informed Choice is one in which:
Service providers adopt open and flexible policies that effectively endorse a range of possibilities
Services and professionals make no value judgements about one option over another and this stance is reflected in their strategic decision-making and resourcing
Families are supported to reach decisions in ways that are sensitive to their individual strengths, resources, needs and experience
Informed Choice is not seen as a one-off decision but as an ongoing process.
There are certainly quite a few individual capacities that may affect people being able to make an informed choice these include, Physical disabilities – deafness, blindness and other various special needs also if you are living in a country which is not your native language this can create barriers to making informed choices as you will more than likely be unable to understand all the relevant information you may need to make such informed choice.
In TLC we try to gather as much