Health care proxy

they know of their patients preference” (Feldman, 2014, pp 608). The other challenge to this is that medical professionals is to disregard the one thing they have been trained their whole medical career to do is save a life. “Physicians and other health care providers may be reluctant to act on DNR requests in part because they are trained to save patients, not permit them to die, and in part to avoid legal liability issues”(Feldman, 2014, pp 608). The benefit to the DNR is that the medical…

biopharmaceutical company which it focuses in improving the health standards locally or globally by manufacturing vaccines and injectable biologic medicines. Basically Pfizer operates under a few business segments such as Global Pharmaceutical, Global Vaccines, Oncology and Consumer Healthcare and Global Established Pharmaceutical. Unlike Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson is an investment holding company which focuses its interest towards health care products. Therefore, it engages in research and…

A potential ethical dilemma that I could face in my chosen advanced nurse practice role as a family nurse practitioner is a large family that disagrees amongst themselves over whether to continue their mothers care. The situation is this: A mother of five children, divorced for over fifteen years, enters the hospital after suffering a massive stroke, was found unresponsive yet breathing in her yard by a neighbor. EMS was called and she was brought into the hospital and placed on advanced life…

terminally ill patients completed an advance directive” (p. 363) which makes it difficult for health care professionals to identify patients’ wishes in situations where end of life is near. This is a significant problem to nursing, as nurses have a responsibility to inform and educate patients about health care directives, and options for end-of-life care as well as facilitate appropriate end of life care according to patient preferences. Compounding this research problem Matsui (2010) explains…

How can social connectedness foster patient resilience? Potential implications for health care practice and health campaigns Background: Resilience is one’s capacity to maintain or regain well-being in the face of adversity, such as having a physical illness (Stewart & Yuen, 2011). Building health resilience has become a prominent health care goal and identifying the factors that allow people to adapt successfully to a negative life event is becoming more and more important (Wulff, Donato, &…

decide someone else’s fate has proved time and time again to be a tricky and difficult decision. For example, in situations where a patient loses decision-making abilities a healthcare proxy is called in to make medical decisions for them. Michael Friedman was a man that agreed to become his mother’s health care proxy and had to come to a decision for his mother to not go on with a life-altering surgery. He states that, “I was uncomfortable about making this decision for her” and “I was…

education centers in the nation. They employ 3,000 plus doctors and scientists at their research facilities with Lerner College of Medicine enrolling 160 students year-round (Cleveland Clinic, 2014). The Cleveland Clinic founder’s mission was “Better care of the sick, investigation into their problems and further education of those who serve” (Mission Vision & Values, 2015). Sincetheir opening in February 28, 1921, the clinic has added more values based off of the founder’s ideals. These values…

Code of Ethics states that “The nurse promotes, advocates for, and protects the rights, health, and safety of the patient” (ANA, 2015). Patients have the autonomy to decide what happens to their body regarding medical treatment. In some cases, health care proxies are appointed to ensure that the patient’s wishes are followed through with when the patient can no longer speak for themselves. A health care proxy is someone that is entrusted with the responsibility of determining treatment…

assistant living (CNA) and a housekeeper. The son lives about twenty-miles away from Shady Brooks Nursing facility, where the patient for 18 months resides. David has begun to show signs of emotional distress and adjustment disorder seeing his mother’s health declining, due to aging and mild dementia. Mrs. Green, eventually showed signs being frustrated,…

In 1991 the Patient Self Determination Act was implemented which pertains to several legal documents as well as those not written in a legal setting. The Patient Self Determination Act states that all health care facilities Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement must recognize a patient’s advance directive, the facilities must ask every patient if they have an advance directive, and provide education to the patient informing them of their rights to communicate their wishes regarding future…