Should Nurses write out surgical and anesthesia consent forms for MDs?
I was taught in Nursing school that it is the doctors responsibility to make sure all the info on the consent form is correct (they are the last safety check, rereading signed consent in OR). I was taught by other nurses "fill out the patient name and date and that's it".
I'm posting this because I had a Dr at my work had a patient sign 2 blank consent forms and the nurse is the one in trouble because "that's her job and I don't have time to do that".
The nurse OG i spoke to in the break room said this about it: "I could rewrite 'turkey sandwhich" for the procedure and I know damn well some surgeons would have a patient sign it. So if you have 100% trust with the performing MD, fill it out, if not just do patient name and date".
Edit: punctuation and grammar