Chapter 58 Comparative And Contextual Study Questions And Answers.

Which of the following is considered a life sustaining treatment ? - correct answer Dialysis Which of the following are considered components of the goals of care " ? - correct answer a Patient's medical and rehabilitative prognosis b.Patient's values , beliefs and preferences. c.Ethically and legally permissible care options 3 ,. The prospect of recovery as anticipated from the usual course of disease or the peculiarities of the case is best described by which of the following terms ? - correct answer 1. Medical prognosis An " ethic of care approach that can guide ethical decision making includes with of the following concepts - correct answer Rights Virtues Utilitarianism Deontology If you were considering the patient's overall contest as a dimension of an ethic of care which question would you ask ? - correct answer How is the family responding to all this ? 6. Questions seeking responses either directly from the patient or from his or her surrogate decision maker in building the goals - of care framework would include which of the following ? - correct answer 1.What is important to her him / them ? 2.What would intolerable days be like for the patient ? 4. What religious spiritual and cultural beliefs influence end - of life decision making ? The physician writes an order for intubation and mechanical ventilation for a patient you know has a valid DNI order is their chart What should you do ? - correct answer Speak up on the patient's behalf and talk about the order with the physician What act requires all health care systems that are receiving federal monies through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to ask all patients upon admission if they have an advance directive ? - correct answer PSDA level of consciousness to the extend necessary for controlled and monitored use of nonopioid medications intended to lower the patient's Which of the following terms refers to the relief of awareness of refractory and unendurable symptoms ? - correct answer Palliative sedations Which of the following terms refers to the act of putting to death someone suffering from a painful or prolonged illness or injury ? - correct answer