If you have to make a non-emergency decision with nurse/doctor in the room, your care providers have taken away your ability to give informed consent.
- Is this an emergency, or do we have time to talk?
- What are the benefits?
- What are the risks?
- If we do this, what other procedures or treatments might we end up needing?
- What are my other options?
- What would happen if we waited (an hour or two, a day, a week, etc.)?
- What would happen if we didn’t do it at all?
- Can you come back after 15min. so that I can think about this?
