End of life care
What each end of life care question is really asking, how to structure the answer, and where the marks are likely to sit.
Four questions and the last one asks for your specialty. That clause is why an ICU nurse and a school nurse should not be able to submit each other's post.
Ethics committees and enforcing advance directives
End of life care
A discussion post on the relationship between hospital ethics committees and the enforcement of advance directives under the Patient Self-Determination Act. This guide shows why the premise needs correcting first, and what the committee's four real functions are.
Futility of care: the nurse's role and legal scope
End of life care
The second question asks something precise and checkable: what is your legal scope of practice in a futile-care decision. That is a jurisdictional question, not an ethical opinion.
Grief, its types and culture-specific attitudes
End of life care
A short prompt with four separate demands packed into it, including two qualifiers most posts miss: the age of the person who died, and the cause of death.
A Module 05 written assignment on advance directives: how they relate to the Client and Resident Bill of Rights, the nurse's role in writing and supporting them, and a personal account of completing them or planning to — scored against a four-criterion rubric.
NUR 2790: clinical death and end-of-life goals
End of life care
The last question is the one that matters and it has an answer beyond how you would feel: the patient's documented wishes govern, and the family's distress is a separate problem to be addressed rather than a competing instruction.
Should we withhold life support? The Mr. Martinez case
End of life care
A DNR order and a respiratory failure caused by a staff error — two facts that pull the obvious answer apart, and the brief removes the surrogate who might have resolved it.