MLW EXAM 12

18. Identify the term that describes this ethical issue: Helping advising, and protecting geriatric patients may neglect individual choice and personal responsibility.

PATERNALISM

21. Hospitals must provide written information to patients upon admission informing them of their rights under state law to executive advance directives. This is a provision of which act?

Patient Self Determination Act

26. What is an advance directive?

Agreeing to accept treatment

15. The number of states that recognize some version of the durable power of attorney is _____.

All 50 states.

29. The term for personal independence and the capacity to make moral decisions and act on them is known as ____________________.

Autonomy

17. What states have currently adopted legislation some form of a right to die statute:

California, Washington, Oregon, New Hampshire

13. As a result of the treatment of cardiopulmonary arrest with ____________ patients may be literally brought back to life after the traditional signs of a death have appeared.,

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)

10. What is the definition of cardiopulmonary arrest?

Cessation of normal functioning of the heart and lungs

11. What are the types of advanced directives?

DNR, LIVING WILL

12. A document signifying a principal to delegate to another person the authority to act on the principal's behalf is known as:

Durable power of attorney

16. The term for actively assisting someone to terminate their life at their request.

EUTHANASIA

4. A living will is executed in circumstances when the individual is incompetent.

FALSE

5. The only way a health care proxy can be revoked is if the patient notifies the agent or health care provider verbally.

FALSE. By notifying the agent orally, writing or other act evidencing specific intent to revoke

8. Implementing do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders is universal among hospitals hospice, and health care facilities.,

False

9. A health care proxy asserts an individual's right to accept or refuse treatment and gives direction to relatives friends, and medical professionals.

False

28. Euthanasia is a Greek term meaning what?

Good death

22. Termination of life support systems is considered:

INTENTIONAL ACT

23. Who is the Michigan doctor who received 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder after he administered a lethal injection into a man in Michigan?

Jack Kevorkian

20. Living will laws are also known as:

NATURAL DEATH ACTS

14. Assisted suicide laws fall under the jurisdiction of _____.

State Law

1. It has been legally recognized that individuals have the right to make decisions affecting their own death

TRUE

2. One person making it possible for another person to commit suicide is known as an assisted suicide.

TRUE

25. A person who is fatally ill with a condition for which there is no reliable cure is considered ________________ ill.

Terminally

A variety of influences shape our thoughts and feelings about death and dying, including family, religion or spirituality, the media, society, and life experiences.

True

19. What is the definition of death of the UDDA?

a. An individual who has sustained either i. Irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions or ii. Irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead.

24. What are the provisions of the PSDA?

a. Provide written information to a patient on admission informing them of their rights under state law to executive advance directives b. Provide written information about to carry out there rights c. Document whether an advance directive exists for each patient d. Educate their staff and community on advance directives

3. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the cessation of normal functioning of the heart and lungs.

true

6. A health care proxy is a document allowing the individual (principal) to delegate to another person the legal authority to act on the principal's behalf.

fALSE

7. Right to die statutes allow all terminally-ill patients to end their lives through the voluntary self-administration of lethal or illegal medications expressly prescribed by a physician for that purpose.,

false

27. Under the PSDA each entity is required to maintain ____________________ policies and procedures concerning advance directives and provide information to patients at the time of admission or enrollment.,

written