ETHICS
Standards of behavior, developed as a result of one's concept of right and wrong.
ETHICS
Individuals in mid-to late teens ho legally live outside parents' or guardians' control.
EMANCIPATED MINORS
This type of euthanasia is the act of allowing the patient to die naturally without medical interference.
PASSIVE EUTHANASIA
Word meaning "rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority"
LAW
Referring to patients expected to die within 6 months, they are:
TERMINALLY ILL
A discipline dealing with the ethical implications of biological research methods and results, especially in medicine.
BIOETHICS
MATURE MINORS
A type of euthanasia resulting from a conscious medical act by a provider that results in the death of a person who is dying. Example: Lethal injections or other means.
ACTIVE EUTHANASIA
This term means someone who is prone to engage in lawsuits
LITIGIOUS
A broad term for types of documents that are a written statement of a person's wishes regarding medical treatment, or other legal wishes to be carried out if they become uncommunicative.
ADVANCE DIRECTIVE
Acts performed by a health care practitioner to help people stay healthy or recover from illness, "doing good" for patients.
BENEFICENCE
What three situation options are there for judicial minor emancipation decree?
1. SELF-SUPPORTING
2. LEGALLY MARRIED
3. ARMED FORCES SERVICE
This type of euthanasia is the act of ending a person's life by medical means (actions of a provider) without the person's permission. (such as an unconscious person).
INVOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA
Term meaning legally responsible or obligated
LIABLE
An type of advance directive that specifies medical care preferences for an individual at end-of-life or permanently unconscious.
LIVING WILL
The duty to "do no harm"
NONMALEFICENCE
State laws that allow parents to abandon newborns to designated facilities without penalty.
SAFE HAVEN LAWS
This type of euthanasia requires the patient's or designated representative's consent to use medical means (actions to be taken by a provider) to end a patient's life?
VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA
Law that derives from the federal Constitution or state constitutions.
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
A facility or program (often in the patient's home) in which teams of health care practitioners and volunteers provide a continuing environment that focuses on the physical, emotional, and psychological needs of the patient who is dying
HOSPICE
Being faithful to the scope of practice for your profession.
JUDICIAL BYPASS
Legally the rights of newborns are the same as those of any other American citizen of any age. Treatment, hydration, and nutrition may only legally be withheld according to Federal Child Abuse Amendments if what is true? (three situations)
1. CHRONIC/IRREVERSIBLE COMA
2. CERTAIN DEATH AND TREATMENT IS FUTILE
3. WOULD SUFFER INHUMANELY IF TREATMENT GIVEN.
Law established through both common law and legal precendent.
CASE LAW
Treatment of a patient's symptoms to make dying more comfortable rather than focusing on curing the illness, this is also called comfort care.
PALLIATIVE CARE