Zusammenfassung der Ressource
NP Ethics Part 2
- Incompetent
- Family or Health care proxy will
agree patient can not make
informed decision
- Only a court can declare a
person incompetant and
appoint a guardian
- Advance Directives
- appointed person that makes decisions on
the patients behalf
- Healthcare Proxy
- Durable statement of
intent based on the
patients written
healthcare wishes.
- EX: Living Will
- Five Wishes Document
- Delineates the following
- Who the patient wants to
make their health care
decisions
- The kind of treatment the
patients wants/does not
want
- How
comfortable
the patient
wants to be
- how the patient
wants people to treat
the person
- what the pt. wants loved
ones to know