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patients rights | patients bill of rights |
all personnel must | respect and honor these rights |
long term care facilities post | residents bill of rights |
Advance Directives for HC aka | legal directives |
DNR | no cpr |
2 main directives | Living Wills, Durable power of attorney |
must be signed by the pt/POA and | 1-2 witnesses |
signed when pt is complete & witnessed by individual | individual who cant benefit |
they want or do not want in the event that they | become incapable and unable to express their wishes |
POA | power of attorney |
provieds standard of | conduct |
many ethical delimas b/c | medical advancmentrs |
professionals have___ code of ethics to career | specific |
def or char | false statments about person that can damage rep |
slander | spoken |
libel | written |
false imprisonment | restraning a person from freedom |
abuse | physcal harm or pain |
contracts | agreement between 2 or more people |
implied | understood w/o verbaly expressed clear terms |
no english | must have interprator |
informed consent | permission given after risks explianed |