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D050 HISTORY OF HEALTHCARE IN AMERICA FINAL EXAM (WGU) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2024
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D050 HISTORY OF HEALTHCARE INAMERICA FINAL EXAM (WGU)
What is the legal document that sometimes is called a living will; that provides
instruction on patients medical treatment wishes? - ANSWERS-advanced directive
What act created in 1990 requires health care providers to provide patients with
the opportunity to have an advanced directive? - ANSWERS-patient self-
determination act
When is a living will enacted? - ANSWERS-when the patient cannot think/care for
themselves
What year was the first living will introduced to the house? - ANSWERS-1968
Karen Ann Quinlan case year?` - ANSWERS-1976
What did the Karen Ann Quinlan case encounter? - ANSWERS-battle between
medical professionals and the patients family to remove patient from breathing
tube after a drug overdose. patients family wanted her off breathing tube and the
medical professionals wouldn't remove it
When did the Nancy Beth Cruzan case occur? - ANSWERS-1983
,What did the Cruzan case consist of? - ANSWERS-patient dependent on feeding
tubes in which they were removed and it took 11 days for patient to pass by
starving to death
When did the Michelle Martin case occur? - ANSWERS-1987
What was the point of Martin case? - ANSWERS-patient was not in a comatose
state but could not function on his own. wife and friends wanted patient to be
removed from feeding tubes and parents and family did not; court denied the
wife and friends because the advanced directive was not in writing
Theresa (Terri) Maria Schiavo case year? - ANSWERS-1990
What happened in the Schiavo case? - ANSWERS-could not function and needed
feeding tubes; Terri's parents wanted her on life support and husband did not
want to continue this way; feeding tubes were removed 15 years after the
accident
What was the result of Karen Ann Quinlan's drug and alcohol overdose? -
ANSWERS-persistent veg state
patient must be able to self-administer the life-ending medication, without
assistance, prior to obtaining treatment. - ANSWERS-physician assisted suicide
, Euthanasia occurs during a physician-assisted suicide and the patient must be
fully - ANSWERS-competent
worked with government officials and jail staff to divert mental health offenders
from jail systems to community-based treatment facilities. - ANSWERS-Dorthea
Dix
work led to the creation of the National Mental Health Association and started
the mental hygiene movement, which aimed to improve the treatment of
patients in psychiatric institutions. - ANSWERS-Clifford Beers
What act introduced civil rights for patients and significantly reduced
experiments? - ANSWERS-National Mental Health Act
When was healthcare first created in the United States? - ANSWERS-1798 Act for
Relief of the Sick and Disabled Seaman
What was created in 1915? - ANSWERS-American Association for Labor
Legislation... created in the model bill
What was the precursor of Medicare and Medicaid? - ANSWERS-Social security
passed in 1935
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