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Flashcards by Elizabeth Then, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Elizabeth Then
about 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Ethical principles | autonomy beneficence non-malfience distributive justive dignity truthfulness |
| Code of ethics for nurses | NMBA |
| Consent to medical treatment and palliative care act 1995 | cannot be used if pt in terminal phase of illness - if pt has not expressed direction - if treatment is not life proloning |
| Brain death | death of whole brain and brain stem irrevisble brain damage causing independent respiration |
| Organ donation | Patient must be brain dead Patient must have consented |
| Role of crit care nursse | early identification collaborative team clinical management family support |
| Terminal sedation | sedating a terminally ill competent patient to the point of unconsciousness, then allowing them to die of the disease, starvation, dehydration |
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