...Advance Directives are our wishes when we are at end of life stages of life that give specific direction of how, who, and when to treat us in our final days and hours. We can have documents drawn up to say what we want in the event we are in a state where we cannot voice our wishes aloud. These documents have legal and ethical basis, and they should be followed unless the legally or ethically unable to do so. Advance Directives gives a documented guide to the care giver’s or family member’s, so that they all can provide the kind of care that the medically impaired patient wants. This covers a wide variety of medical treatments such as dialisis, ventilators, feeding tubes and organ and or tissue transplants. If a patient has kidney failure they might or might not want to be on dialysis. The advance directive would spell out whether the patient would want such treatment if he or she was not able to convey this to the medical personnel. If the patient was at the end of life and did not want to be kept alive via artificial means such as a ventilator of feeding tube, the advance directive would have the patients wants of this type of treatment also. If the patient passed away and wanted his or her organs donated, then this directed would defanitely give the right to have their organs harvested and donated to someone in need. Even though there might be an advanced directed for a patient that is not able to express their wishes to their family or care givers, there can still...
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...what it is, and the reason for it. I will talk about the issues that are currently facing advance directives care and talk about whether it has failed, or not. Finally, I will prove my stand on the issues with evidence. What is Advance Directives? An Advance directive is a living will, which allows one to document their wishes concerning medical treatments at the end of life. Even though it’s optional, but all health care facilities are required by law to ask patients if they have one, and offer them the appropriate information, and documents to sign if they want it. There are two basic kinds of advance directives, living wills, and durable powers of attorney for health care. Advance directives are legally valid throughout the United States, but the laws governing advance directives vary from state, to state. Anyone can have advance directives, no lawyer is required, and it becomes validas soon as you sign it in front of the required witnesses. Anyone can be a witness. Reasons for advance directives Advance directive is designed to empower patients, and to allow them to have a voice in their care. It provides a way for patients to communicate their wishes to family, friends and health care professionals, when they are no longer able to do so. With advance care directives, you can express how much, or how little care you want done for you when you are no longer able to make these decisions for yourself. You can also appoint someone to make decisions about your medical treatments...
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...Keeshia Whiteside Advance Directives and Living Wills Health care advance directives are legal documents that communicate a person's wishes about health care decisions in the event the person becomes incapable of making health care decisions. There are two basic kinds of advance directives: living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care. * A living will expresses, in advance, a person's instructions or preferences about future medical treatments, particularly end-of-life care, in the event the person loses capacity to make health care decisions. * A durable power of attorney for health care appoints a person (called a health care agent or proxy, health care representative, or other name depending on the state) to make decisions for the person (the principal) in the event of incapacity to make health care decisions. Normally, people communicate their wishes directly to their doctors. But when a person no longer has the capacity to make or communicate a health care decision, another way to make and communicate a decision is needed. That is the role advance directives play. If no advance directive has been prepared, someone else not of the person's choosing may be called on to make health care decisions. Many states authorize default surrogate decision makers, usually next of kin. When state law does not authorize a default surrogate decision maker, doctors and hospitals still usually turn to next of kin, although the extent of their legal authority becomes...
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...institutions are also required to educate their staff about advance directives and not be discriminative against whether the patient does or does not have an advance directive. Advance directive is a legal document in which patients provide instructions on how they are to be treated in the event of becoming very ill with little to no hope for recovery (Green, M., & Bowie, M., 2005). A patient’s health care directive serves some of the purposes as a living will, but also encompasses others, as well. Since it is impossible to foresee every circumstance regarding a person’s health, a health care medical power of attorney is also needed to place someone in authority to weigh all medical facts and circumstances and carry out the patient’s wishes accordingly (AmericanBar.org). A health care advance directive combines the living will and medical power of attorney into one document, and may include organ donation and other directions such as where and how the patient prefers to be cared for. This document is more comprehensive and flexible, and is the preferred legal tool (AmericanBar.org) References Green M., &. B....
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..."I have been telling you, don’t use Left hand while you are writing." - Mom reminds my brother. I asked, 'What’s wrong in that Ma?" "Well, you use same hand for other Purpose in Bathroom, so using left hand in normal work is not good.” In some point I convinced although I know hand washing is done properly. :-) Many Times I had seen People using Left hand and also heard that they are much more talented than normal person. I don’t know why, continuously my brother has been reminded about lefty (left handed) and he shifted to Righty (right hand) while writing. I was neutral on this changes because I was impressed with one suggestion by my teacher Mr. Ram Prasad Bhandari during my Public Health class saying that "if you think something have bad impact then act to stop it, if you think something have good impact then promote it and if you don’t know whether it is making good impact or bad then just left it as it is." Days just went on.... “I wonder, he can spend his whole day watching CID in Sony television" - Mom shared with me. She continued, I am afraid it will impact his study. "Don’t worry Mom, these days, children learn more from TV than Books. He is smart", I replied. I could see his interest watching CID. "What do you want to be in future Brother?” I threw a question to him when he was busy watching CID. "I want to be CID", he replied quickly. "That’s good, but why do you want to be CID?" He replied, "I just want to be." "Can anyone be CID?” he further...
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... | Introduction A Living Will is a form of an advance directive that is a “legal document that describes those treatments an individual wishes or does not wish to receive should he or she becomes incapacitated and unable to make medical decisions” (Pazgar, 2007, p. 378). Normally in a Living Will an individual would also indicate another individual as his or her power of attorney in the legal document; however, it is not necessary for a living will to be created with a power of attorney or a power of attorney to be created with a living will though it is highly recommended to do so. This is due to the fact that each has its flaws and each could compensate for one another though in reality it could create more conflicts too. For a physician or any other healthcare provider to go against a patient’s autonomy means that there are many legal problems these physicians may face because they went against the patient’s desires, especially because of such allegations as criminal assault and battery. Advance directives have been created to preserve an individual’s autonomy and protect a physician from having to respond for his or her actions when the individual is no longer able to communicate his or her wishes. It has been presented that physicians and all other healthcare...
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...most part fall into three classes: living will, health care proxy and power of attorney (Fremgen, 113). Living will This is a composed report that determines what sorts of medicinal treatment are craved. A living will can be certain or extremely broad. More particular living wills may incorporate data in regards to a singular's longing for such administrations, for example, absence of pain (agony alleviation), anti-infection agents, hydration, bolstering, and the utilization of ventilators or cardiopulmonary revival (Fremgen, 114). Health care proxy This is an authoritative report in which an individual assigns someone else to settle on health care sets in the occurrence that he or else she is rendered unequipped for making their wishes known. The health care proxy has, generally, the same rights to demand or decline treatment that the individual would have if equipped for settling on and conveying choices (www.nlm.nih.gov). Strong power of attorney This is the third sort of advance directives. People may draft authoritative reports giving power of attorney to others on account of weakening therapeutic condition. The sturdy power of attorney permits a person to make bank exchanges, sign Social Security checks, apply for handicap, or just compose checks to pay the service bill while an individual is medicinally debilitated. (medicinenet). Health Care Situations Varieties of advance directives disagree based on formal rule and different likings within the positions’...
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...Health care advance directives are documents that communicate a person's wishes about health care decisions in the event the person becomes incapable of making health care decisions. There are two basic kinds of advance directives: living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care. Durable powers of attorney are the legal basis during advance directives. Legal basis began when the Patient Self-Determination Act, a federal law was passed during 1991. This act requires that the patients are informed about their right to participate in health care decisions, including their right to have an advance directive.(Tonelli, 2008) Advance directives fall into two broad categories: instructive and proxy. Instructive directives allow for preferences regarding the provision of particular therapies or classes of therapies. Living wills are the most common examples of instructive directives, but other types of instructive directives, such as no transfusion and no CPR directives are also employed. The proxy directive, generally a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care (DPAHC), allows for the designation of a surrogate medical decision maker of the patient's choosing. This surrogate decision maker makes medical care decisions for the patient in the event she is incapacitated. (Tonelli, 2008) The ethical basis for advance directives is pretty much dealing with living wills. A living will expresses a person's preferences for medical care it is called a “living" will because it...
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...Final Five Wishes CW Psych 210-B13 Liberty University I currently am twenty years old. Death is not something I think about much. I rarely ever ponder the decision that would need to be made if ever put in what could be considered a critical position. I am so young, so fresh in life, making a name for myself, death and my last wishes are not things I have honestly sat down to straighten out. While pondering my last wishes I felt overwhelmed, slightly depressed. At this point in time, I have no husband or offspring, just my friends, parents, siblings, and boyfriend. I kept thinking, “Parents are not supposed to face final five wishes in regards to their children, it should be the other way around.” However, I know how fragile life is and how real death is, I know that any moment I could be laying on my death bed and begging my parents to carry out my last wishes. First Wish: I would appoint my father as my medical power of attorney if I were put in a situation where I was incapable of making them for myself. I choose my father because he and I have talk many times about what we want for ourselves if we were put in situations like this. I would like to use my body for a better purpose; if I cannot use it then I want someone who can to use it. I am an organ donor, as well as my dad, and I want to make sure that my body can help other people. My father respects my wish, however my mother does not. I would also want to be cremated, what is the point in wasting...
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... Do you like the feeling of suspense? Suspense draws us in and makes us want to go on, to find out what is going to happen. Many authors use suspense to urge readers to continue reading. In the stories "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Monkey's Paw" the authors use cause and effect to create suspense for the readers. What cause and effect relationships happen in “The Monkey’s Paw”? In the story, the White family obtain an enchanted monkey’s paw when they have Sergeant-Major Morris over to their house, and he explains to them that the paw is cursed, but they take it anyway. They then wish for two hundred pounds, and later get it, because their son had an accident at work and passed away. The monkey’s paw always grants the person who owns it what they ask for but often in different ways than you expect, leaving your head spinning and you asking “What’s next?”. At one point Mr. and Mrs. White are sitting outside and it’s peaceful, then a man walks up and starts talking to them and tells them their son has died and then says,"I was to say that Maw and Meggins disclaim all responsibility. They admit no liability at all, but in consideration of your son's services, they wish to present you with a certain sum as compensation,”(Jacobs 112-113) and the sum was two hundred pounds. The man from where their son worked had just granted their first wish, the effect of their son dying. Therefore, if their son hadn’t died they would not have received the money. The author uses cause and effect...
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...Explain whether or not it matters that Rally is associated with pizza.Tradename protection extends to zone of reputation, zone of expansion, and zone of marketing in addition to being the first in the area. Because Rally is associated with Pizza andwith Motors, it is not as much of a conflict as it would have been if Gabby had a used car dealership and decided to call it Rally¶s Used Cars. According to Robert Wayne Olson Jr¶sexample, ³The Rose Cafe (a restaurant) does not conflict with The Rose Law Firm (legalservices), nor does either conflict with Rose Story Farm (a nursery). However, if Violet Rosewants to open the Violet Rose Bistro, that name could be sufficiently confusing to bar its use inthe same area as The Rose Café.´ In my opinion it is not distinct and therefore can beconsidered as confusing. In order to be protected under tradename laws, the business owner must not have a confusingly similar name to a company that was registered in the same 4 Running head: RALLY ROUND THE TRADE NAME geographic area first. Rally is associated with pizza as well as with motors and as a result in thevideo, many consumers were confused and were calling the car dealership and placing orders for pizza.3. E xplain how important the fact is that Herman started to use the name Rally first in that particular geographical area.The fact that Herman began using the name 40 years ago protects him under common law,trade name protection by registration and he used the name first in...
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...people. This means the elderly people may be reluctant to think of themselves as dependent and in need of care. Likewise, eighty year old Mr Len Robbins desires to retain control over his ageing life in his own home. Mr Robbins has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, pulmonary fibrosis and myocardial infarction. This paper will examine how nurses can provide safe care to Mr Robbins within his home environment. It will also discuss whether nurses can fulfil the wishes of Mr Robbins and his daughter while minimising his risk of physical and psychological injury. The ageing process requires the elderly to adapt to changes in their physical, social, emotional and mental health states (Thygesen et al., 2009). The elderly are always at risk of physical and mental illness (Boehlke, 2009).Therefore, placing the elderly people in a nursing home is not the optimum solution to keeping them safe and healthy; providing a “Hospital in the Home” to Mr Robbins maybe a better choice in order to ensure that he and his daughter’s wishes are fulfilled. A Hospital in the Home’s patients are visited by doctors and nurses at least once a day and is covered by Medicare for a senior Australian. Hospital in the Home can also provide Mr Robbins with needed equipment such as shower stool and toilet chair to minimise his risk of falls and injuries (Boehlke, 2009; De Blok et al., 2010). For appropriate use of equipment, it will require nurses to organise an occupational therapist to come to his home for the...
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...Chris Satterwhite Mrs. Ricksecker CCDR 110N A01 November 13, 2012 A Genie and His Wishes Life as a genie means that no one asks you what your wishes are, but sometimes I wonder what life would be like if I were the one who was granted three wishes. Would I feel guilty about taking someone's wishes that were granted to them? It’s always me granting the wishes for once I would like to be getting my three wishes. Would I have any remorse afterwards? Let’s see what wishes I would choose and some examples of the importance of each wish . As a genie for thousands of years there are so many wishes to choose from, but I have narrowed it to three. My first wish is very important for me, and I am sure that others would agree on the importance of happiness for all. Another wish is to have more friends, because it gets very lonely in the bottle I currently live in. Last of all, my most important wish, I wish to live outside the bottle, and as normal human being. Now I will explain the importance of each wish and how it will affect my life in the future. My first wish is for happiness to all. I think that has a nice sound to it, don’t you? It is tough being a genie, but it’s also very gratifying helping others in need. Yes, I know there are going to be ups and downs from whatever you wish for, but you can learn to deal with what life throws at you that might transpire from a first wish. Most people in the world today want something that is better than they already have. This...
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...With the power of being granted three wishes, there are a lot of option to wish for to satisfy someone’s greed or wellbeing. Money is an example of a wish that satisfy someone’s greed or wellbeing. In the story Monkey’s Paw, the White family wish for two hundred pounds and it was wish granted, but with a consequence. This is why hard work and inspiration should motivate people to be successful and not just rely on wishes. The story Monkey’s Paw, demonstrate how dangerous wishes can be from using unnatural object to grant them. Morris stated in Monkey’s Paw “It has caused me enough mischief already.” Even though Morris did not say what his three wishes were, the monkey’s paw had cause him enough trouble in his life when he received it. Receiving an item that look creepy and have the ability to grant wishes seems dangerous to keep around. Morris also said the man before him also has his three wishes granted, but his last one is for death. That right there is a big clue that should ring the bell of how dangerous using anything weird granting wishes. Morris view the monkey’s paw as something that should not exist in the world anymore and that it should be destroy. This is why he threw the paw into the fire to get rid of....
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