Description
This Course Project gives you the opportunity to select a relevant healthcare topic with legal and/or ethical implications and analyze it in greater depth in a written format. The Research Paper should critically analyze the issues related to the topic within the context of the current healthcare environment. The PowerPoint presentation is a visual technology tool to support a live presentation to a specific group of stakeholders (e.g., leadership team, board of directors, community and public interest group, etc.). Both web references and professional journals should be considered as references. Don't overlook the Keller Online Library as an important source of information for your Research Paper.
See a more detailed grading rubric below.
The Course Project has two deliverables due in Week 7.
- Research Paper: The length of the Research Paper should be approximately five to seven pages, double-spaced in MS Word and include a minimum of six references in APA or another approved format.
- PowerPoint Presentation: The length of the PowerPoint Presentation should be approximately 10–15 slides with relevant speaker's notes and include a minimum of three audio-visual components (e.g., images, figures, tables, audio and/or video links, etc.). Follow these guidelines to create your PowerPoint Presentation.
- Include a cover slide with course number, course title, title of PowerPoint Presentation, your full name, and date.
- Title of Presentation: Course Project: PowerPoint Presentation
- Insert headers or titles or subtitles on each slide.
- Insert page and slide number.
- Keep it simple but engaging. Use appropriate images and graphics to illustrate and complement your presentation.
- Number of slides: 10–15 slides
- Complete a minimum of three of the 10–15 PowerPoint slides with an audio or visual component to present, explain, and bring to life your presentation. Show enthusiasm and speak with proper volume and inflection to maintain audi
- Include a cover slide with course number, course title, title of PowerPoint Presentation, your full name, and date.
Explanation & Answer
Attached.
COMPLIANCE WITH LIVING
WILLS
SYBMITTED BY:
WHAT ARE LIVING WILLS?
• By legal terms, a living will or an advance directive is a legal document directing
physicians on the treatment procedures an individual wishes, in case of end-of-life
medical situations.
• An example of this situation is irreversible brain damage
HISTORY OF LIVING WILLS
• The legal term ‘living will’ was coined over a half century ago.
• The Natural Death Act conceptualized living wills.
• It as enacted after the controversial case of Kate Anne Quinlan, who suffered
irreversible brain damage.
• She was preserved for 8 months, before her family obtained permission to unplug
her from the respirator.
• She surprisingly survived for an additional 10 years.
ELEMENTS OF A LIVING WILL
• All identifying information of the individual making the will.
• Relevant information of a General Practitioner.
• The place where the living will is located.
• A list of people allowed to have a copy of the living will.
• Signatures of at least two witnesses.
CONT’D
• It should contained a detailed explanation of the types of treatments to be allowed or
avoided.
• The explanation should include the circumstances under which the treatments should
be avoided or allowed.
• The document is independent of assisted suicide or euthanasia.
THE WITNESSES
• The witnesses should declare their non-involvement and interest in the individual.
• This declaration should be in another statement, but considered part of the living
will.
WHAT MAKES A LIVING WILL A LEGAL
DOCUMENT
• If the individual making the living will is above the age of 18.
• There is accompanying documentation that the individual was of sober mind when
making the living will.
• There is no evidence showing the individual was coerced by external pressures to
make the will.
DURABLE POWERS OF ATTORNEY
• The document creates provisions for a trusted individual to act in the best interest of
the individual, in cases where the circumstances may not be clearly defined by the
living will.
• This individual is referred to as a proxy-decision maker.
• The DPOA is the document containing the details of the individual.
• It may be a separate document from the living will or considered as part of the living
will.
ETHICS IN LIVING WILLS
WHAT ARE THE ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS?
• The desires of the individual should be respected, by both doctors and loved ones of
the individual.
• Although doctors have a responsibility to preserve life, they should understand that
the decision to live in the circumstances of the living will rest solely on the individual.
• The loved ones of the individual should not be blinded by personal vendettas or
emotions when making decisions regarding the individual.
• Above all else, it is the ethical responsibility of the medical practitioners ...
