Presume that you are a health care provider or administrator and analyze each of the scenarios below answering the quest
Posted: Mon Jan 24, 2022 9:14 am
Presume that you are a health care provider or administrator and
analyze each of the scenarios below answering the questions
below.
a) state the relevant facts. Remember to quote/paraphrase (and
reference) an academic source for each case.
b) discuss if the elements of decision making capacity are
present?
c) evaluate if the patient's choice impacts others? (Autonomous
actions of a patient that infringe upon the rights, health, life or
welfare of others are morally questionable and should lead one to
question a patient's decision making capacity)
2) then determine if the patient's has DMC and can/cannot make
an autonomous decision.
A 79-year old male with diabetes and end-stage COPD is on 2L of
continuous oxygen. The patient was recently discharged from the
hospital (after being admitted for dehydration) to his two-story
home where there is only one bathroom on the second floor. Because
it is difficult to ambulate up the stairs, the patient has been
avoiding fluid intake so as to not have to go to the restroom. The
dehydration is causing the patient to become confused and forget
his medicine, furthering causing complications because his diabetes
is often uncontrolled. Three times in the recent past neighbors
found the patient wandering around late at night, half dressed and
standing on the road. Family has suggested that the patient needs
to move to another location and the patient has refused. Concerns
have been raised by the neighbors.
analyze each of the scenarios below answering the questions
below.
a) state the relevant facts. Remember to quote/paraphrase (and
reference) an academic source for each case.
b) discuss if the elements of decision making capacity are
present?
c) evaluate if the patient's choice impacts others? (Autonomous
actions of a patient that infringe upon the rights, health, life or
welfare of others are morally questionable and should lead one to
question a patient's decision making capacity)
2) then determine if the patient's has DMC and can/cannot make
an autonomous decision.
A 79-year old male with diabetes and end-stage COPD is on 2L of
continuous oxygen. The patient was recently discharged from the
hospital (after being admitted for dehydration) to his two-story
home where there is only one bathroom on the second floor. Because
it is difficult to ambulate up the stairs, the patient has been
avoiding fluid intake so as to not have to go to the restroom. The
dehydration is causing the patient to become confused and forget
his medicine, furthering causing complications because his diabetes
is often uncontrolled. Three times in the recent past neighbors
found the patient wandering around late at night, half dressed and
standing on the road. Family has suggested that the patient needs
to move to another location and the patient has refused. Concerns
have been raised by the neighbors.