A Patient Is on Life Support and Unresponsive to Stimuli

question 5

Multiple Choice

A patient is on life support and unresponsive to stimuli. One of her daughters talks to the nurse about withdrawing life support. The other daughter asks the nurse when the patient is likely to wake up and be able to eat. The nurse talks with her charge nurse and manager about this patient situation. This action demonstrates which ethical skills outlined in the PILLAR mnemonic? Select all that apply.

• A) The ability to IDENTIFY ethical issues
• B) The ability to find needed RESOURCES
• C) The ability to ANTICIPATE ethical issues
• D) The ability to work within defined professional LIMITATIONS
• E) The ability to understand how PERSONAL experiences impact care

Analyze the role and impact of businesses in social responsibility and the arguments for and against their involvement.

Understand the stages of moral development as proposed by Lawrence Kohlberg and their application in ethical business practices.

Define business ethics and identify common ethical dilemmas within a business context.

Understand how to add components to the content pane in Java GUI Applications.

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Definitions:

Poisson Probability

A distribution used to predict the probability of a given number of events happening in a fixed interval of time or space, given a constant mean rate of occurrence.

Defects

Imperfections or faults in a product or process that deviate from desired performance or specification.

Normal Distribution

This denotes a probability distribution with symmetry at the mean, proving that nearer-to-mean data points occur more regularly than those farther away.

Mean

The mean of a collection of numbers, found by dividing their total sum by the quantity of numbers in the set.