When a client has designated someone else to make health care decisions when he or she is unable to do so, the client is using:
a. An advance directive
b. A living will
c. A durable medical power of attorney
d. The Patient Self-Determination Act
C
Durable medical power of attorney is the legal way for a client to designate someone else to make health care decisions when he or she is unable to do so.
You might also like to view...
Family structures have experienced change in the second half of the twentieth century. What is the most dramatic difference seen in families today?
a. Increased incidence of single-parent families b. Reemergence of large, extended families c. Increased incidence of nuclear families d. Nuclear families moving closer to extended families
Disaster nursing competencies include risk reduction, disease prevention, and health promotion; policy development and planning; community care; and ethical and legal practice. The nursing process is not considered a core competency for disaster nursing
1. a natural disaster 2. a multiple-casualty incident 3. a mass-casualty incident 4. an accidental disaster
Which terms would a nurse use to document abnormal posturing in an adult with a neurological deficit? Note: Credit will be given only if all correct choices and no incorrect choices are selected. Select all that apply
1. Decorticate posturing 2. Decerebrate posturing 3. Circumduction 4. Steppage 5. Nystagmus
Identify the result of drug interaction between statins and alcohol.
A. Increase in blood level of enzyme inhibitors B. Increase in plasma clearance of statins C. Severe myopathy D. Decrease in statin hypolipidemic effect