Test 1 Remainder Vocab

Question 1

Artificial means

Answer 1

usually refer to mechanical means such as respirators; it does not include pain medication.

Question 2

Persistent vegetative state

Answer 2

patient shows no evidence of awareness of self or environment and an inability to interact with others.

Question 3

wrongful living

Answer 3

when a patient through what is proper and competent medical care is kept alive; interference with a person’s legal right to die.

Question 4

advance directives

Answer 4

A persons actualized expressions determining end of life issues.

Question 5

living will

Answer 5

A person’s declaration of the type or manner of medical care in the event they suffer from a terminal condition or persistent vegetative state. Can be for prolonging life or not prolonging life.

Question 6

terminal condition

Answer 6

one caused by injury, disease or illness from which there is no reasonable likelihood of recovery.

Question 7

life prolonging procedure

Answer 7

any treatment or procedure that uses artificial or mechanical means to restore, sustain or replace a bodily function that without which one would cease living.

Question 8

HIPPA

Answer 8

Federal regulations regarding the privacy of health records.

Question 9

DNRO

Answer 9

Do not resuscitate

Question 10

health care surrogate

Answer 10

A person named by the declarant to make all medical decisions in the event the declarant is unable to do so.

Question 11

power of attorney

Answer 11

document that gives another, called the Attorney in fact, the power and authorization to act on ones’ behalf.

Question 12

durable power of attorney

Answer 12

(AZ) – A written instrument by which a principal designates another as the principal’s agent (A.R.S. 14-5501)

Question 13

medical powers of attorney

Answer 13

Another form of advance directive where a person is authorized to act on the declarant’s behalf on issues regarding medical care

Question 14

attorney-in-fact

Answer 14

Person named to act on behalf of the declarant on the power of attorney, be it a medical power of attorney or otherwise.

Question 15

patient self-determination act

Answer 15

Federal Law that require health care facilities to give patients a written summary of their rights regarding health care.

Question 16

anatomical gifts

Answer 16

A donation of all or part of the human body upon death. Can be organs for transplant or research, can be the whole body for research.

Question 17

death with dignity act

Answer 17

Some sates allow a voluntary self administered lethal injection expressly prescribed by physicians to end a person’s life. Another name for state sanctioned suicide