Your client is incompetent and unable to communicate wishes about life-sustaining treatment. The client's spouse, however, has told the physician that life-sustaining treatment should be terminated
Legally, the client's cousin needs which of the following to make decisions about the client's health care?
1. living will
2. an order in the client's chart
3. verbal communications with the client's primary provider
4. durable power of attorney for health care
ANS: 4
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