LESSON 16

Question 1

Courts have not made their decisions on basis of personhood criteria

Answer 1

Proxy Decision-making Standards

Question 2

Courts created ‘standards’ for allowance of ‘decision by proxy’

Answer 2

Proxy decision making standards

Question 3

Considers ‘tangible factors as harms and benefits’, physical and fiscal risks

Answer 3

Best interest standard

Question 4

Considers what best for the person in terms of their well being

Answer 4

Best interest standard

Question 5

Decision about ‘treatment or non-treatment’ must remain that of the patient

Answer 5

Substitute-judgment standard

Question 6

Patient who understand the nature of their conditions

Answer 6

Informed Non-Consent

Question 7

Acuity of patient is irrelevant to the allowance of treatment refusal

Answer 7

Court Ruling

Question 8

DNR means

Answer 8

Do Not Resuscitate

Question 9

Order placed in a person’s medical record by a doctor informs the medical staff that cardiopulmonary resuscitation should not be attempted

Answer 9

DNR

Question 10

Treatment that keeps the person free of pain and comfortable

Answer 10

Palliative care

Question 11

What are the 4 languages of DNR

Answer 11

Code
No code
Slow code
Chemical Code