Informed Consent - Merriam-Webster online dictionary has a medical point of view on this by stating that it's a consent to surgery form. I ask is it really just that any more?
I suggest that in today's age informed consent needs to have broader spectrum, with the advent of privacy laws we need to make sure that what ever we ask of other people, be it on a professional level or personal level we need to make sure that whom ever we are asking to comply with our wishes that they fully understand what it is we are asking and what we are asking of them. There is nothing worse that realizing after the fact that we didn't comprehend what was being asked of us.
This is even of more importance with Information Technology (IT), as we practice our growing Occupational Therapy (OT) knowledge we need to consider who we deal with, they need to have a knowing, an assumption if you will, that we have their best interests at heart and would never knowing put them in a position of feeling used, treated poorly, taken for as just a number - that would not be socially just-able.
Merriam-webster online dictionary (2001) retrieved 24/03/2011
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