The overall goal of client advocacy is to:
1. safeguard the client's right to privacy by judiciously protecting confidential information.
2. safeguard the public when health care and safety are affected by incompetent, unethical, or illegal practice of any person.
3. provide services with respect for human dignity and the uniqueness of the client.
4. ensure that the client receives the best possible care and to support the client's right to have health care consistent with the client's values and beliefs.
Question 2
Your client is incompetent and unable to communicate wishes about life-sustaining treatment. The client's spouse, however, has told the physician that life-sustaining treatment should be terminated.
Legally, the client's cousin needs which of the following to make decisions about the client's health care?
1. living will
2. an order in the client's chart
3. verbal communications with the client's primary provider
4. durable power of attorney for health care
Client position when assessing jugular vein distention.
The nurse cares for the postop client in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU).
Tracking Goal-Setting Progress
Example of simplified note for one-time client.
Client files are kept in alphabetical order in locked file cabinets.
Position the client