Legal Standards
This expresses laws in place to regulate abusive circumstances.
What is Adult Protective Services?
Keeping this ethical principle with your patient builds trust and communication.
What is Fidelity?
These two entities maintain their position on this?
What is Physician-Assisted Suicide?
This is defined by state laws which are dissimilar amongst them.
What is Elder Abuse?
These rules of action and conduct were made to give explanation to statutes.
What are Regulations?
This document permits recorded preferences regarding their health.
What is Advanced Medical Directives (AMD)?
All states now have laws to support these two documents?
What are LW, and DPAHC? ( Living Will, Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care)
This offers general principles to guide nursing actions.
What is a code of ethical conduct?
The role of the nurse is to maintain this according to Nurse's Ethics Code for End-of-Life Care.
*hint: this is a 3 part answer.*
What is maintain autonomy, improved health status, and do no harm?
State theses four sources of laws such as: statutes, regulations, and case law, at the levels at which the laws were made such as federal, and state.
What are Constitutions, Statutes, Cases, and Regulations?
This states care of the older adult nursing practice is guided by the Code of Nurses.
What is the Scope and Standards of Gerontological Nursing Practice?
This provision requires maintenance of written policy and procedure, education to staff, and state and national involvement.
What is the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA)?
Residents rights laws from state and federal are both concerned with these?
*hint: there are several parts to complete this response.*
What are physician selection, medical decision making, privacy, dignity, the ability to pursue grievances, discharge and transfer rights, and access to visitors and services?
These key ethical principles are the framework for nursing decisions of professional judgement.
*hint: this response has V parts.*
What is autonomy (or self-determination), beneficence (doing good), Nonmaleficence (avoiding evil), justice (allocation of resources), and veracity (truthfulness)?
This is not meant to replace conventional end-of-life care tools such as AD or DNR.
What is POLST (physician orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment)?