Chapter 11

Question 1

Zaner’s reference to the tension that patients feel when accessing health acre

Answer 1

unavoidable trust

Question 2

Appropriate professional behavior that serves to maintain trust between patients and nurses and to maintain nurses’ good standing within their profession

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boundaries

Question 3

Occurs when a person is in a situation where their capabilities can be effectively applied

Answer 3

dignity

Question 4

Acting without keeping score of who gives or receives the most

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generosity

Question 5

involves the nurse’s moving from the patient to the healthcare system

Answer 5

advocacy

Question 6

Nurses mistreating other nurses can be referred to as:

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lateral/horizontal violence

Question 7

refers to experiencing happiness in regard to the good things experienced by others

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sympathetic joy

Question 8

the right to perform certain activities because they conform to the accepted standards of a community or because they will not harm, coerce, restrain or infringe upon the interests of others or because there are good rational arguments in support of the value of such activities

Answer 8

Moral right

Question 9

Rights allowing persons to pursue their legitimate interests or those personal interests that do not interfere with the interests of other persons’

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welfare (positive) rights

Question 10

Rights involving the right to noninterference from any person or governmental entity when pursuing one’s legitimate interests

Answer 10

liberty (negative) rights

Question 11

in the US ___ rights are emphasized over ___ rights, except in case of the elderly & poor

Answer 11

liberty; welfare

Question 12

Examples include: the right to receive basic goods such as education, medical care & police protection & a right for the government to provide these

Answer 12

Welfare rights

Question 13

Examples include: autonomy, privacy, freedom of speech, freedom from harassment, confinement, unwanted medical treatment, or participation without informed consent

Answer 13

Liberty rights

Question 14

includes the rule that meaningful information must be disclosed even if the clinician does not believe that the information will be beneficial

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informed consent

Question 15

The 2 standards that are often applied to suffice for informed consent

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The reasonable person standard & the subjective standard

Question 16

This standard states the healthcare professional will disclose information that a reasonable person would want to know

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reasonable person standard

Question 17

This standard states that disclosure must be based on the subjective interests of a particular patient rather than a hypothetical reasonable person

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subjective standard

Question 18

Designed to facilitate the knowledge and use of advance directives

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Patient self-determination act

Question 19

a written expression of a person’s wishes about medical care, especially care during a terminal or critical illness

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advance directive

Question 20

A formal legal document that provides written directions concerning medical care that is to be provided in specific circumstances

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living will

Question 21

not a formal legal document but provides specific written instructions concerning the type of care and treatments that individuals want to receive if they become incapacitated

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medical directive

Question 22

The legal document with the most strength, a written directive in which a designated person is allowed to make either general or healthcare decisions for a patient

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durable power of attorney

Question 23

A virtue that guides us in created organized human interactions we call institutions

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social justice

Question 24

occurs when a person takes an action to end a life

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active euthanasia

Question 25

occurs when a person allows another person to die by not acting to stop death or prolong life

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passive euthanasia

Question 26

occurs when a person of sound mind authorized another person to take their life or to assist them in achieving death

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voluntary euthanasia

Question 27

occurs when a person is not able to express their decision about death

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nonvoluntary euthanasia

Question 28

characterized by voluntary active euthanasia

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rational suicide

Question 29

providing comfort rather than curative measures for terminally ill patients

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palliative care

Question 30

defined narrowly as the use of high doses of pain medication to lessen the chronic and intractable pain of terminally ill patients even if doing so hastens death

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rule of double effect

Question 31

used to guide medical decisions that involve formerly competent patients who no longer have any decision making capacity

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standard of substituted judgment

Question 32

decisions made on behalf of an incompetent person and are based on decisions that the formerly competent person has made

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pure autonomy standard

Question 33

based on the goal of the surrogate’s doing what is best for the patient or what is in the best interest of the patient

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best interest standard

Question 34

treatment with no physiologic benefit for a terminally ill person

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futile care

Question 35

when a suffering patient is sedated to unconsciousness

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terminal sedation

Question 36

the act of providing a lethal dose of medication for the patient to self-administer

Answer 36

physician-assisted suicide

Question 37

This act allowed for physician assisted suicide to be legal in Oregon

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death with dignity act