Your client is in the special care area of your hospital with multiple trauma and severe bodily burns. This 45 year old male client has an advance directive that states that the client wants all life saving measures including cardiopulmonary resuscitation and advance cardiac life support, including mechanical ventilation. As you are caring for the client, the client has a complete cardiac and respiratory arrest. This client has little of no chance for survival and they are facing imminent death according to your professional judgement, knowledge of pathophysiology and your critical thinking. You believe that all life saving measures for this client would be futile. What is the first thing that you, as the nurse, should do?
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Which type of legal consent is indirectly given by the client by the very nature of their voluntary acute care hospitalization?
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Question 3 of 150
Which federal law is most closely associated with the highly restrictive 'need to know'?
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What ethical principle below is accurately paired with a way that ethical principle is applied into nursing practice?
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Question 5 of 150
The current focus of performance improvement activities is to facilitate and address:
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