Your patient is a 49-year-old woman with terminal cancer. She has a DNR order, but her family has called 911 because the patient is having difficulty breathing and seems to be very uncomfortable. Making the patient as comfortable as possible demonstrates the ethical principle of:
A) beneficence.
B) autonomy.
C) justice.
D) malfeasance.
Question 2
You are first to arrive at the side of a pond where a boy playing hockey has fallen through the ice. He is holding onto the ice at the edge of the break and has a distressed look on his face. Your immediate action would be to:
A) carefully slide on your abdomen out to the patient.
B) instruct the patient to remain still until the rescue team arrives.
C) tell the patient to keep moving to keep warm.
D) place tarps on the ice and carefully walk out to the patient.
Client on IV patient-controlled analgesia (PCA).
Patient Teaching Methods
C. Michelangelo The Holy Family (Doni Tondo)
WOMAN FROM WILLENDORF
Hospitalization per year
The family described in Example Case 3