HCR 210 - Client Centered with complete solutions

HCR 210 - Client CenteredConfidentiality - correct answer obligation to keep private any information about a patient; information is to be shared only with those who need to know in order to provide care to that patient Principles associated with confidentiality - correct answer autonomy and right to privacy Exceptions of confidentiality - correct answer 1. Emergency situations 2. Client is not competent 3. protection of third parties 4. mandatory reporting by law 5. Person is dangerous to self or others Patient Bill of Rights/ Patient Care Partnership - correct answer voluntary document presented by the American Hospital Association, reflects the significance of patients' involvement in their health care and their rights and responsibilities (autonomy) Paternalism - correct answer a person makes a decision for a client, without that client's involvement in making the decision, threatens the patients autonomy Medical Futility - correct answer situation in which interventions have no expected medical benefits or in which chance for success is low Double Effect - correct answer situation in which medications given to control pain or maintain the patient's comfort may hasten death; considered ethically justifiable if the intent is to control pain and not to hasten death; the key to administering medication that may hasten death is the intent of the persons prescribing & administering the medication Palliative care - correct answer the goal of such care, most often evident in hospice care, is to decrease the violence of symptoms of pain or moderate the intensity of those symptoms; the goal is not curing but making comfortable