Tag / advance directives
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Advance Directives – Are They Effective?
Have advance directives led to progress in patients’ rights?
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Caring Conversations – A Partnership Between You and Your Agent
Appointing an agent is the beginning of a partnership.
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The Case of Jennie M: To Tube Feed or Not
Jennie has an advance directive, and it states her wishes clearly, but what it doesn’t make clear is what she wants to do regarding a feeding tube. Who is responsible for making this decision now that Jennie can’t speak for herself?
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After the Heart Attack – Sister Rosemary Flanigan, PhD
In early 2012, at age 85, Dr. Rosemary Flanigan suffered and survived a heart attack. Fifteen years earlier, Dr. Flanigan wrote: “It makes me mad…
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The Case of Freda: Nursing Staff in Moral Distress When Patient’s Wishes Not Followed
Case Study – The Case of Freda Freda is a thirty-two-year-old woman in an advanced fixed stage of multiple sclerosis. She is no longer able to move independently or feed herself. She is able to speak with great difficulty. Her decisional capacity is intact. Freda’s inability to swallow has caused her to lose weight to…
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Case Study – Our Pregnant Daughter Didn’t Want This.
Is a healthcare directive legally in effect if the patient is pregnant?
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Case Study – Matter of Quinlan
Case Study – Matter of Quinlan Karen Ann Quinlan, a twenty-two-year-old who ingested a harmful mix of drugs and alcohol, suffered two fifteen-minute periods of interrupted breathing which left her in a chronic vegetative state without any cognitive functions. Evidence in the case included statements the patient made earlier referring to her “distaste for continuance…
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The Case of Grace: Why Are They Doing All This?
Case Study – Grace – Why Are They Doing All This Grace H. has spent all her life teaching high school English in Pine Junction. She retired ten years ago when she began to suspect that she was suffering the early stages of dementia. Shortly after she retired, Grace, who has never married, sold her…
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Case Study – Disagreement Over Advance Directive
Who decides if the medical team thinks care is non-beneficial and the family disagrees?
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Case Study – Angela C – Maternal Fetal Issues
Treatment wishes – is the response different because of pregnancy?
