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mwit1967

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Home health services expanded in the 1960s and thereafter, largely due to shortened hospital stays brought about in an era of cost containment.
 
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A patient with end-stage renal disease does not want further aggressive treatment but is reluctant to withdraw life-sustaining treatment. The nurse would help the patient to understand that life-sustaining treatment includes maintaining:
 
  a. full code status.
  b. comfort measures only.
  c. nutrition, hydration, and dialysis.
  d. nutrition and hydration but removal of dialysis.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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Answer to Question 2

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The patient who wants to withhold further aggressive therapy but not withdraw life-sustaining therapy would be informed that nutrition, hydration, and current treatments such as dialysis would be maintained.


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Reply #2 on: Jul 19, 2018
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Reply #3 on: Jul 19, 2018
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