A legally executed document that allows patients to state in advance that in the event of a terminal illness, they wish to forgo life-sustaining treatment.
What is a Living Will?
100
The entire state of living thing.
What is Life?
100
The refusal of treatment by a person who knows that refusal will lead to death.
What is Passive Suicide?
100
An ongoing decision making progress in health care.
What is prioritizing?
200
MCS
What is "Minimally Conscious State?"
200
When no advance directive exists, physicians, and health care facilities should look to family members to make health care decisions.
What are Family Consent laws?
200
This encompasses essential traits that make life worth living.
What is Quality of Life?
200
The ending of another person's life by withdrawing treatment.
What is Passive Euthanasia?
200
Tailors distribution to balance the dignity and equality of all persons with the inequality of their needs and circumstances
What is the Fairness Theory?
300
BLS
What is Basic Life Support?
300
A document executed by a competent person (the principal) to appoint another (an agent) to make health care decisions when the principal becomes incompetent.
What is a Durable Power of Attorney?
300
-Capability of performing normal biological functions
-Stability of the powers of intellect and creativity
-Emotional contact with others
What are factors which influence one's quality of life?
300
The ending of another person's life by an aggressive method to end suffering
What is active euthanasia?
300
The greatest health care services for the greater number.
What is the Utilitarian theory?
400
DNI
What is Do Not Intubate?
400
This document created a hierarchy for all health care decisions.
What is Uniform Health Care Decisions Act?
400
The state at which all higher brain function is lost.
What is Persistent Vegetative State? (PVS)
400
The taking of one's own life through a conscious act.
What is Active suicide?
400
the distribution of resources as a system of contracts
What is the Entitlement theory?
500
PVS
What is "Persistent Vegetative State"?
500
This state is the only state which has laws allowing physician assisted suicide.
What is Oregon?
500
One who acts on behalf of patients and may make decisions and grant consent for them in quality-of-life judgments.
What is a Surrogate?
500
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
What are the 5 steps in the grieving process?
500
This theory demands equal distribution of equal resources