BUSI 302 Chapter 12 Reading Assignment solutions complete answers

BUSI 302 Chapter 12 Reading Assignment solutions complete answers 

 

According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), how often is a person needing an organ added to the list?

 

What is a facility or program (often carried out in a patient's home) in which teams of health care practitioners and volunteers provide a continuing environment that focuses on the physical, emotional, and psychological needs of the dying patient?

 

True or false: All 50 states accept the validity of living wills; therefore, all requirements are uniform.

 

Which of the following signs are present to indicate death?

 

What did early customs for mourners include?

 

What is a proposal that established uniform guidelines for determining when death has occurred?

 

States have their own criteria for someone to be considered brain-dead, but most agree on which of the following criteria?

 

Technically, what does death result from?

 

What is a postmortem examination to determine a cause of death and/or to obtain physiological evidence when necessary called?

 

Prior to the 20th century, where did loved ones typically die?

 

Who proposed the Uniform Determination of Death Act?

 

The Patient Self-Determination Act was due, in large part, to which of the following cases?

 

What is defined as the final cessation of bodily activity, used to determine when death actually occurs?

 

Which of the following can be administered to test for brain activity?

 

Which of the following are reasons to perform an autopsy?

 

As a result of the Patient Self-Determination Act, patients are encouraged to execute what documents?

 

Which of the following medical documents usually provides the most specific end-of-life wishes for medical treatment?

 

What is a legal document that appoints a proxy, or substitute, who makes decisions about the property or finances of a patient and may make medical decisions called?

 

Why did mourners in ancient times wear black at funerals?

 

What is a federal law passed in 1990 that requires hospitals and other health care providers to provide written information to patients regarding their right under state law to make medical decisions and execute advance directives?

 

Which of these statements are true regarding living wills?

 

What is a state-specific legal document that specifically identifies a person to take responsibility of a patient's health care decisions when the patient is not able to do so?

 

When does a durable power of attorney take effect? 

 

What is a medical order that instructs health care providers not to do CPR if a patient's heart stops beating or the patient's breathing stops?

 

What type of care serves dying patients and has the goal of not curing them but providing them comfort?

 

Which of the following statements about palliative care are true?

 

Which of the following statements about health care proxy are true?

 

Who writes the order for a DNR?

 

What is care that is directed toward curing a patient's disease called?

 

In what way has palliative care emerged as it relates to patients with serious illnesses?

 

Hospice programs ease dying; they do not support              .

 

Which of the following statements about terminally ill patients are true?

 

A DNR order is only used as a(n)         and does not include instructions for treatments. 

 

What type of services, beyond patient care, do most hospices provide both the patient and the family?

 

Which of the following statements about the right to die movement are true?

 

What term refers to patients who are expected to die within 6 months?

 

Which state passed a Natural Death Act, the nation's first right to die law?

 

What is the act of ending a patient's life by medical means without the consent of the patient or his or her representative called?

 

Which states have legalized physician-assisted suicide?

 

Luis Kutner, the founder of which organization, created the first living will made available to the public?

 

In what year was the American Hospital Association successful in creating the Patient's Bill of Rights?

 

What are the goals of the OPTN?

 

In the event of death, patients may want to make clear to hospital personnel that they would like to donate organs for which of these purposes?

 

What is a conscious medical act that results in the death of a dying person called?

 

What is a type of euthanasia in which a doctor participates with the end of life choice?

 

Which act allows individuals to donate their bodies or body parts, after death, for use in transplant surgery, tissue banks, or medical research or education?

 

Which of the following can be transplanted?

 

What entity maintains the only national patient waiting list for organ donation?

 

Which of the following are ways to indicate that you are interested in organ donation?

 

Which of the following are provisions of the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act?

 

What is considered to be the most painful type of grief?

 

What organs can be donated while the donor is still alive?

 

How are the stages of grief experienced?

 

Which of the following is recommended to support someone who is grieving?

 

What is the human reaction to loss called?

 

Who is responsible for paying the cost for transplantation of a donated organ?

 

Match each stage of grief, as defined by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, with its definition.

 

People who are grieving can find support from which of the following sources?

 

According to Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, there are how many stages of grief?