A legal document that a person uses to make known his or her wishes regarding life prolonging medical treatments.
What is a Living Will
100
A fundamental principle that underlies all nursing practice is respect for the inherent worth and human rights of every individual.
What is respect for human dignity.
100
Aretha Franklin song.
What is the right to respectful care.
100
The ability to understand all information about a health care condition, to communicate understanding and choices, and to reason and deliberate; and, the possession of personal values and goals that guide that decision.
What is decision making capacity.
100
Non-disclosure
What is confidentiality.
200
A legal document that designates an individual to make medical decisions for you in the event that you're unable to do so.
What is a Power of Attorney
200
The opposite of publicity.
What is privacy.
200
Full disclosure of relevant, current, and understandable information concerning diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
What is the right to informed consent.
200
The process by which patients are informed of the possible outcomes, alternatives, and risks of treatment.
What is informed consent.
200
Self governing, having the freedom to make independent choices.
What is autonomy.
300
A legal order written either in the hospital or on a legal form to respect the wishes of a patient to not undergo CPR or advanced cardiac life support if their heart were to stop or they were to stop breathing.
What is a DNR
300
Answerable to ones self and others for ones own actions.
What is accountability.
300
I DONT'T WANT TO!
What is the right to refusal.
300
Beneficence's sibling
What is nonmaleficence.
300
To protect from harm and discomfort.
What is beneficence.
400
A document that allows a patient to appoint an agent to make health care decisions in the event that the primary individual is incapable of executing such decisions.
What is a Health Care Proxy
400
The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.
What is integrity.
400
The ethical principle or legal right that a physician or other health professional will hold secret all information relating to a patient, unless the patient gives consent permitting disclosure.
What is the right to confidentiality.
400
This act requires hospitals and nursing homes receiving Medicaid and Medicare funds to provide written information to adult patients regarding their rights to make health care decisions.
What is the Patient Self-Determination Act.
400
I cross my heart and hope to die, stick a needle in my eye.
What is fidelity.
500
An alternative form and process for patients to provide their end of life care preferences to health care providers across the spectrum of the health care delivery system. This form can be honored by EMS agencies, hospitals, nursing homes, adult homes, hospices and other health care facilities and their health care provider staff.
What is the MOLST form.
500
Nurses who contribute to leadership, activities and professional organizations are
What is advancing nursing practice.
500
Declaration of Helsinki.
What is the right to consent or decline to take part in research studies or human experimentation.
500
Instructions that indicate which health care interventions to initiate or withhold, or which designate someone who will act as a surrogate in making such decisions, in the event that a person loses decision making capacity.
What is advance directives.
500
One of the last four words in The Pledge of Allegiance.