are common medical documents that assist health care providers in providing care to patients. There are four types of advance directives which are: a Living Will‚ Durable Power of Attorney (DPOA)‚ Uniform Anatomical Gift Act‚ and Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders (Fremgen‚ 2009). In this paper‚ the advance directive called the Living Will will be explained. A Living Will is drafted while a person is still mentally healthy and able to make decisions about their health care. The Living Will expressly
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Assessment equals Data Collection + Analysis | Nursing Diagnosis – Actual/Potential | Nursing Goal(SMART) | Nursing Interventions/ActionsInclude Rationale/Reference | Evaluation | Female Age : 85Code status: Full Code initially but changed to DNR on 14/Jan-2012Primary diagnosis: PancytopeniaReason for Hospital Admission: Fall at home. Allergy: PenicillinMedical History: Pacemaker‚ Hypertension‚ Fall at home‚ Bradycardia‚ Hyperlipidemia.Neurological: Alert‚ Oriented x 4.Diet as ToleratedActivity
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Krebs English 121 [Date] Expanding the Death with Dignity Act: Our Basic Human Right for Compassion. Dark and mysterious is the way of death‚ but for some it is a bittersweet welcome of departure. The unmentionable world of physician-assisted suicide is often a misjudged one. Without proper facts and appropriate laws to carry out dying with dignity‚ those who are terminally ill and wanting to die have no choice but to wait for death‚ deteriorating and suffering in the time being. Expanding the
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What could be worse than being diagnose with early stages of dementia at the end of retirement? Dementia is considered a decline in the mental ability that results in a poor quality daily life. About nine million American suffer from the progressive disease of dementia. Furthermore‚ half of the people diagnosed with dementia suffers from Alzheimer’s disease which is the most common type of dementia (Dementia Society of America‚ 2018). People who are suffering from dementia cannot make decisions
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1. View Lecture slides on Autonomy 2. View the movie “Million Dollar Baby” (if you are short on time view from the fight scene to the end) and answer the following questions: a. What kind of burden does it place on society or members within society‚ such as significant others of patient’s‚ when health care providers do not honor or attempt to find out the patient’s wishes regarding end of life care? (2.5pts) When a patient is not advised of his or her rights under the Patient Self-Determination Act
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Shay Ward Purdue University Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a chronic lung disease that encompasses a group of lung conditions that causes structural changes of the airways and alveoli‚ the dysfunction of cilia and an inflammatory response. It is a progressive disease that symptoms worsen over time and is characterized by an accelerated decline in lung function. Chronic bronchitis and emphysema
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right to life means preserving some one’s life for as long as possible even if they want to die. For example‚ all nurses and doctors at Kings College hospital should do everything they can to keep a person alive if it’s possible. But things like a ‘DNR’ (do not resuscitate) form make it impossible for a doctor to save someone’s life No doctors would help a person die because it is illegal to have euthanasia in the UK. Some people who wish to end their lives have gone to Switzerland to
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ABSTRACTThis report discusses a very controversial topic‚ euthanasia. There are many forms that Euthanasia can take: Euthanasia can active voluntary‚ passive voluntary‚ active involuntary or passive involuntary. As all other controversial topics‚ there are two extreme views. There are reasons for being against euthanasia‚ including religious ones. There are also many reasons for being for euthanasia‚ including the right to choose. There are many reasons why people would want to go through the act
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Administrative information: Information used for administrative and healthcare operation purposes‚ such as billing and quality oversight. Advance directive: A legal‚ written document that describes the patient’s preferences regarding future healthcare or stipulates the person who is authorized to make medical decisions in the event the patient is incapable of communicating his or her preference. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA):An economic stimulus package enacted by the 111th United
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Congestive Heart Failure Congestive Heart Failure is a condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the needs of the rest of the body (Department of Health & Human Services‚ 2012). The failure can occur in on either side of the heart. In left-side heart failure‚ fluid backs up into the lungs‚ causing shortness of breath‚ due to the fact that the blood entering the left side of the heart comes from the pulmonary artery‚ and when the left ventricle cannot pump fluid out of the
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