Informed Consent

  • Author: L Kelly
  • Level: Introduction 
  • Study time: 16 mins
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Lesson series
Informed consent ensures clients understand and agree to their care. This course clearly explains what informed consent involves, your responsibilities, effective communication strategies, and how consent aligns with New Zealand’s Code of Health and Disability Services Consumer Rights.
  • Video time: 16 mins
  • Quiz: 1
  • Assessment: 1
Lesson series

Why is this course important?

Understand informed consent as a fundamental client right involving clear, comprehensible communication. Recognise the difference between informal consent (everyday care) and formal consent (treatments with higher risks). Learn your role in respecting client choices, providing full information, and maintaining dignity and independence.
Meet the instructor

Leigh Kelly

Leigh Kelly is a New Zealand Registered Nurse who has been working with the elderly and disabled since 1974. Her ADN focused on young physically disabled.

She has been a Charge Nurse at Kenepuru and Greenlane Hospitals Continuing Care Wards, owned her own dementia specific rest home and worked and managed rest homes.

She also has vast experience as a RN in continuing care facilities.
Patrick Jones - Course author