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15 Cards in this Set
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What is an advance directive?
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A witnessed document or oral statement in which instructions are given by a person to express desires related to health care decisions. Directive may include, but it not limited to, the designation of a health care surrogate, a living will, or an anatomical gift.
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What is a living will?
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A witnessed written document or oral statement voluntarily executed by a person that expressed the person's instructions concerning life-prolonging procdures.
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What is health care decision?
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Informed consent, refusal of consent, or withdrawal of consent for healthcare, unless stated in an advance directive.
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What is incapacity or incompetent?
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Patient is physically or mentally unable to communicate a willful and knowing health care decision.
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What is informed consent?
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Consent voluntarily given after sufficient explanation and disclosure of information.
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What is a proxy?
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A competent adult who has not been expressly designated to make health care decisions for an incapacitated person, but is authorized by state statute to make health care decisions for the person.
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What is a surrogate?
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A competent adult designated by a person to make health care decisions should that person become incapacitated.
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What is terminal condition?
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A condition in which there is no reasonable medical probability of recovery and can be expected to cause death without treatment.
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What is a persistant vegetative state?
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A permanent, irreversible unconsciousness condition that demonstrates an absence of voluntary action or cognitive behavior, or an inability to communicate or interact purposefully with the environment.
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What is brain death?
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Complete and irreversible cessation of brain function.
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What is clinical death or cardiac death?
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Irreversible cessation of spontaneous ventilation and circulation.
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What is life-prolonging procedure?
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Any medical procedure or treatment, including sustenance and hydration, that sustains, restores, supplants a spontaneous vital function. Does not include the administration of medication or treatments deemed necessary to provide comfort care or to alleviate pain.
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Define resuscitation
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Intervention with the intent of preserving life, restoring health, or reversing clinical death.
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What is a "Do not resuscitate (DNR) order"?
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A medical order that prohibits the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiac care to reverse signs of clinical death. The DNR order may or may not be specified in patient's advance directives.
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What is meant by "allow natural death" ?
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An alternate term with less negative cannotations, but essentially meaning DNR.
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