END OF LIFE Flashcards
1
Q
Someone appointed to make patient’s health care decisions
Can be financial or health care proxy
A
DPOA Designated/durable power of attorney
2
Q
Written documentation of what the patient wants provided or not provided in medical care if they become incapacitated
A
Advanced Directive
3
Q
Patient’s wishes whether to not carry out resuscitation procedure or only certain steps such as only compressions but not intubation
A
DNR
4
Q
An individual instruction or a written statement, witnesses, and governing the withholding or withdrawing of life-prolonging intervention, voluntarily executed by a person
A
Living Will
5
Q
Types of pain meds most commonly used
A
Morphine sulfate Oxycodone Hydromorphone elixir (dilaudid)
