NUR 3826H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Advance Healthcare Directive, Opendocument, Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act
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Freedom and ability to act in a self determined manner. Right of a rational person to express personal decisions independent of outside interference and to have those decisions honored. In western thought, sometimes this principle over rides all other principle. Facilitating and supporting patient"s decisions and choices about treatments. Disclosing comprehensive and truthful information, diagnoses, and treatment options. Forgoing treatment, withdrawing treatment and with holding treatment. Legal and ethical issue regarding treatment in healthcare. Respecting a person"s autonomy to make decisions based on appropriate information and the circumstance: receipt of the information, consent for treatment must be voluntary, people must be competent. First federal statue designed to facilitate a patient"s autonomy through the knowledge and use of advance directives. Health care providers and organizations must provide patients with written information regarding state laws covering the rights to make healthcare decisions, to refuse or withdraw treatments and to write advance directives. The health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996.
