Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has been prescribed for a patient diagnosed with chronic depression. Which statement by the patient helps assure the nurse that the patient's right to informed consent has been respected?
a. "ECT treatment will cure my depression."
b. "ECT is dangerous but I'm almost out of treatments."
c. "I may not remember things that happened just before the ECT treatment."
d. "I'm likely to permanently lose memory of things like dates and numbers."
ANS: C
A potential side effect is memory loss that is usually temporary but that can rarely be irre-versible. It is not true that ECT either cures depression or that the treatment is considered physically dangerous.
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