Preview

Five Wishes Packet: The Five Health Care Decisions

Satisfactory Essays
Open Document
Open Document
104 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Five Wishes Packet: The Five Health Care Decisions
When opening the Five Wishes packet, I looked at wish one. Wish one is stating the three people I would want to make health care decisions for me if I couldn’t make them myself. The first one I wrote down was Hassan, the one stated above of course. The second person however is someone who has been my best friend since day 1. Someone who is kind, understanding, and open hearted, Suzan Noman, my mother. The third and final person I would want to make health care decisions for me if the first two cannot comply is like a sister to me, Danyale Alsaadi.

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Better Essays

    Hs101 Unit 2 Case Study

    • 882 Words
    • 4 Pages

    This this case study I believe that each of these, (respect, empathy and dignity) were shown to the patient despite her incapacity to accept it. Her friends showed empathy and respect by getting her to healthcare heal as soon as it was possible. Respect, empathy and dignity was shown by the healthcare providers by doing whatever they could to make sure that the patient obtained proper and prompt healthcare as soon as they were able, all the while trying without success to reach her next of kin. They acted in good faith and made decisions that they in turn would want made for themselves or their loved…

    • 882 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    With new technology, new trends, current technology, and trends frequently changing, health care has evolved processes for health policies to continuously being added, reassessed, changed, and considered in order to help improve the United States health care system. There are several phases and transitions new ideas go through before it can be implemented into policy. In health care, every health facility plus more feels when there are changes in health related issues and policies, especially patients. This country needs well-informed, attentive, publically cognizant health care leaders and staff comprehensive of health…

    • 1487 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    I viewed the suicide tourist video open-mindedly and aware of the 1990 Patient Self-Determination ACT (PSDA). Self-Determination is a very difficult topic of discussion because it is closely tied to one’s culture, beliefs and religious practices. The conversation does not usually occur until after a loved one has become terminally ill and cannot make that decision for themselves, placing the decision in the hands of family members. Mr. Ewert stated that people may think that he is playing God by making the decision to end his life and yet, he would not be alive now if it warrant for technology keeping him alive and that doctors and nurses play God every day when saving per-mature babies and performing transplants. Mr. Ewart’s decision to…

    • 303 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Health Care

    • 769 Words
    • 4 Pages

    5. “The health care borrower enters into a loan agreement with the governmental authority, the issuer of the bonds” (Zelman, McCue, & Glick, 2009).…

    • 769 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    There are many issues raised by life and death choices in healthcare. Advance directives are a set of directions you give about the healthcare you want if you ever lose the ability to make decisions for yourself. If you have a disease you can choose curative care which is directed at healing or curing the disease or palliative care which involves care that helps relieve the symptoms, but does not cure or treat then disease. When it becomes apparent that a patient is approaching the end of life, or that the patient no longer wants to prolong their life, a decision can be be made to withhold or withdraw treatment. Advance directive laws merely give doctors and others immunity if they follow it, the only reliable strategy is to discuss your values and wishes with your healthcare providers ahead of time to make sure they are clear about what you want. Although, a doctor can be held liable in a court of law for not following those orders. There is a limited amount of time in which a patient can make a medical malpractice claim. The statute of limitations for these claims may vary by each state.…

    • 1437 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Health Care Policy

    • 312 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Identify and explain the four elements of proof necessary for a plaintiff to prove a negligence case.…

    • 312 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Health Care

    • 672 Words
    • 3 Pages

    References: du Pré, A. (2005). Communicating about health: Current issues and perspectives (2nd ed.). Boston: McGraw Hill.…

    • 672 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Health Care

    • 279 Words
    • 2 Pages

    A healthcare facility is trying to determine whether or not to serve coffee in the waiting rooms for their patients. Since many similar facilities do serve coffee, tea, and water, they want to determine if there is sufficient evidence to show that coffee increases their heart rate. 15 patients in the waiting room one day are tested to see if their heart rate increases. The healthcare facility would like supporting data from national studies that support the results of their study.…

    • 279 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Health Care

    • 1083 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Medicare, a federally supported program, was adopted in 1965 to provide health coverage and services to the elderly seniors (over 65) and disabled citizens without regard to income or medical history. Its funds come directly from federal governments and beneficiaries. Medicare revenues come from interest, taxation of social security benefits, state payments, payroll taxes, beneficiary premiums and general revenue. The government uses money generated from taxes to reimburse providers who take care of patients enrolled in these programs.…

    • 1083 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Ellis-Christensen, T. (2010, September 08). What are the advantages of electronic medical records?. Retrieved from http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-advantages-of-electronic-medical-records.htm…

    • 1058 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    During my four year period as a healthcare professional, I have seen the doctor who has been missing from the floor for hours because he/she went for lunch and had too much to drink or the nurse who is missing every few hours, gone to take a smoke. I have heard of the missing narcotics in pharmacy or the patient who constantly complain that whenever a particular nurse works she does not receive her pain medication, only to find out that the nurse is withholding the narcotics for herself. Although the nursing profession can become very stressful at times, and many healthcare professional multitask more than one job, and many have easy access to medication, no excuse can pardon this kind of behavior.…

    • 483 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    Top Healthcare Priorities

    • 724 Words
    • 3 Pages

    References: Huntoon, Kristin M.; McCluney, Colin J.; Scannell, Christopher A.; Wiley, Elizabeth A.; Bruno, Richard; Andrews, Allen; & Gorman, Paul. (2011). Healthcare reform and the next generation: United States medical student attitudes toward the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. PLoS ONE, Vol. 6 Issue 9, 1-7. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023557.…

    • 724 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Health Care

    • 28437 Words
    • 114 Pages

    In 1990 health care providers had just began to discover what appeared to be a very powerful tool for reducing variation in patient care practices - clinical paths. A clinical path includes descriptions of key events that, if performed by caregivers as described, are expected to produce the most desirable outcomes for patients with specific conditions or procedures. By the late 1990s, caregivers started to question the benefits of clinical paths. Organizations reported problems integrating the pathway document into patient records, thus dampening caregiver enthusiasm for using the pathway. Physicians, nurse, and other clinicians found the pathways difficult to apply to all patient populations. A variety of factors may be causing clinical paths to look like yesterday’s failed solution, when in fact the lessons learned during years of pathway development are being put to good use in many organizations.…

    • 28437 Words
    • 114 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Better Essays

    Health Care

    • 1493 Words
    • 6 Pages

    In this short essay about the “Obama HealthCare Policy,” I will discuss the problems of…

    • 1493 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Health Care Policy

    • 10787 Words
    • 44 Pages

    The number of uninsured Americans is greater than the total population of Canada (Lambrew, Podesta, & Shaw, 2005). Conservative 2004 estimates indicate that there were 41.6 million uninsured persons of all ages (14.5%) and 51.0 million (17.7%) were uninsured for at least part of the year (Cohen, Martinez, & Hao, 2005). By 2013, projections suggest that one in four Americans under the age of 65, nearly 56 million people, will be without health care insurance because coverage will be too expensive (CQ Health beat News, 2005). The United States spends more money on health care than other industrialized nations but is the only one that doesn’t ensure health care coverage for all citizens. Every year, approximately 18,000 unnecessary deaths occur because of health insurance lacking in the United States, (Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2002). Proponents of universal health care coverage say this problem is fixable but only if a significant overhaul of our current insurance system occurs. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 is not a universal coverage plan but is designed to decrease the number of uninsured.…

    • 10787 Words
    • 44 Pages
    Good Essays