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Following a discussion with a patient about treatment options given by the primary care physician, a nurse assures the patient that the physician will support whatever decision is made. This nurse is acting as the patient's
 
  1. Ethics board
  2. Value system
  3. Advocate
  4. Conscience

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In certain situations when a patient is in the terminal stages of a disease and not expected to live much longer,
 
  a physician may be authorized to write a do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order in the patient's chart that limits life-extending measures to
  1. Tube feeding.
  2. Use of a ventilator.
  3. Comfort and dignity.
  4. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 22, 2018
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