ACTS
Planning Ahead
Assisted-Suicide
Stages of grief
Definitions
100
A proposal that established uniform guidelines for determining when death has occurred.
What is the Uniform Determination Act?
100
An advanced directive that specifies an individual's end-of-life wishes
What is a living will
100
A conscious medical act that results in the death of a dying person.
What is active euthanasia?
100
when the patient or family do not believe they are ill or accept that they are going to die.
What is Denial?
100
Final cessation of bodily activity, used to determine when death actually occurs; circulatory and respirations have irreversibly ceased and the entire brain has irreversibly ceased to function.
What is brain death
200
A 1989 recommendation of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws that all states construct laws to address advanced directives.
What is the Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act?
200
An advanced directive that confers upon a designee the authority to make a variety of legal decisions on behalf of the grantor, usually including health care decisions.
What is a durable power of attorney?
200
The act of allowing a dying patient to die naturally, without medical interference.
What is passive euthanasia?
200
"Why Me?" reaction. Patient or family member very upset.
What is Anger?
200
A condition of deep stupor from which the patient cannot be roused by external stimuli.
What is coma?
300
A federal law passed in 1990 that requires hospitals and other health care providers to provide written information to patients regarding their rights under state law to make medical decisions and execute advance directives.
What is the Patient Self-Determination Act
300
a durable power of attorney issued for purposes of health care decisions only.
What is health care proxy?
300
The act of ending a dying patient's life by medical means with his or her permission.
What is voluntary euthanasia?
300
When the patient make attempts to re-negotiate past behaviors for and extension on life.
What is Bargaining?
300
A facility or program in which teams of health care practitioners and volunteers provide a continuing environment that focuses on the physical, emotional, and psychological needs of the dying patient.
What is hospice?
400
Passed in 1984, a statute that provides grants to qualified organ procurement organizations and established an Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.
What is the National Organ Transplant Act?
400
orders written at the request of patients or their authorized representatives that CPR not be use to sustain life in a medical crisis.
What is do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order?
400
The act of ending a terminal patient's life by medical means without his or her permission.
What is involuntary euthanasia?
400
Sadness, hopelessness, or no point in going on.
What is Depression?
400
treatment of a terminally ill patient's symptoms to make dying more comfortable.
What is palliative care?
500
A recommendation of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, that all states accepted, allowing individuals to donate their bodies or body parts, after death, for use in transplant surgery, tissue banks, or medical research or education.
What is the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act?
500
requires hospitals and other health care providers to provide written information to patients regarding their rights under state law to make medical decisions and execute advance directives.
What is Patient Self-Determination Act?
500
Loosely refers to any type of euthanasia situation in which a doctor takes part in a patient's suicide.
What is physician-assisted suicide?
500
Have come to term with illness or death.
What is Acceptance?
500
referring to patients who are expected to die within six months.
What is terminally ill?
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