Professional Ethics and Scope of Practice · Clinical Decision Exercise

Consent Process Check

Six moments from practice. For each one, decide whether the consent already in place is sufficient or whether it has to be revisited, and where it does, choose the words you would use.

What this exercise practises

Recognising the points at which the work turns in a way the client could not have anticipated, and having a sentence ready for each of them rather than improvising one in the moment.

Two of the six are proceed moments, and they are there deliberately. Consent as a process does not mean restating it before every question, and the exercise is as much about not interrupting as about knowing when to.

Estimated time to complete this exercise: 10 minutes

1Six moments
2The common thread
3Close

Before you begin

How this one works

Six moments from practice, one at a time. For each one, decide whether the consent already in place is sufficient or whether it has to be revisited before you go on.
Where you choose to revisit, a second step appears and you choose the words you would use. Where you choose to proceed, there is nothing further to select.
Two of the six are proceed moments. The last part asks what the four that are not have in common.
Nothing is graded and nothing is recorded. Reloading starts it again.

Consent in sexual health practice is a process, not a signature. It has to be revisited whenever the work changes in a way the client may not have anticipated (Module 01, Section 3).