Pennsylvania Advance Healthcare Directives

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The best form to use for a Pennsylvania Advance Healthcare Directive is *

The Five Wishes Document

The POLST / DNR forms

The Pennsylvania statutory form

Other:

A "Living Will" refers to that part of an Advance Healthcare Directive that: *

Takes effect if you are expected to recover and live after recovering from an illness

Takes effect if there is no significant prospect of recovery from your illness

Governs the disposition of your property before to die, to avoid Pennsylvania Inheritance tax

Whenever there is a problem with an Advance Healthcare Directive, the court with jurisdiction of the matter is? *

The Magisterial District Court

The Federal District Court

The Civil Division of the Court of Common Pleas

The Orphans Court Division of the Court of Common Pleas

Perhaps the most common reason Advance Healthcare Directives are ignored by medical providers is? *

By law, only hospice workers are obliged to read your Advance Healthcare Directive

They do not care because they are underpaid and understaffed

They do not understand the law, nor how to read the document

One of the notations in your medical records that is required by the laws governing Advance Healthcare Directives, is? *

If and when you become incompetent as defined by the statute

When you are more than thirty days behind in payment for medical services

Your religious affiliation, if any

Any "living Will" prepared in Pennsylvania prior to the change in the law in 2006, is? *

Still valid if the principal did not have the mental capacity to change it, otherwise invalid

Still valid

Invalid

If your agent begins to act for you because you are incompetent, wheat happens when you regain your competency? *

You must revoke your agent's authority in writing if you expect to take over again

You must draft a new Advance Healthcare Directive

You automatically begin to make your own medical decisions

If you are not incompetent but want a "second opinion" about the information you received concerning your medical care, the person most able to obtain it is? *

Your agent appointed under your Advance Healthcare Directive

Your agent appointed under your Financial Power of Attorney

Your guardian

If your agent under your Advance Healthcare Directive must make a decision on your behalf, the decision should be governed by? *

Best medical practices

Their personal wishes

Your own personal wishes

The rules concerning Advance Healthcare Directives and Financial Power of Attorney are? *

Similar

Different, and in separate sets of laws

In Pennsylvania, if a patient does NOT have an Advance Healthcare Directive, who makes medical decisions for them? *

The Agent appointed under a Financial Power of Attorney

A guardian must be appointed by the court

The Pennsylvania statutes, in Section 5461, provide a hierarchy of which individuals may act

A hospital ethics committee

John does not have an Advance Healthcare Directive. He has a spouse and a child from a previous marriage. Who makes medical decisions on his behalf if he is "incompetent." *

His spouse

His child from his former marriage

His current spouse and any children from a former marriage each have one vote.

Mary is widowed, "incompetent" and has four children. The children cannot agree on how their mother would feel about a certain medical procedure and there is a tie vote. What happens? *

Mary's healthcare providers must administer treatment in accordance with accepted standards of medical practice until the disagreement is resolved

Mary's healthcare providers must submit the issue to the hospital Ethics Committee

Mary's healthcare providers must seek the appointment of a guardian

Mary's agent under her financial power of attorney casts the tie breaking vote

Which of the following is NOT necessary for "competency" as it is defined by these laws? *

A patient must understand the potential material benefits, risks, and alternatives involved in any proposed health care decision

A patient must be able to make one or more decisions on his or her own

A patient must be able to communicate his or her decision to others

A patient must be able to make all critical decisions regarding is or her care.

If you wish, you may allow your agent under your Advance Healthcare Directive to arrange for the disposition of your body and make anatomical gifts. *

False

True

A nursing home (skilled care facility) may require that you have an Advance Healthcare Directive prior to admission. *

False

True

An insurance company may charge a higher rate if you do not have an Advance Healthcare Directive *

Yes

If a healthcare provider does not feel they may in good conscience comply with the decision of your healthcare agent, they must (check all that apply) *

They must inform the patient or agent

They must make every reasonable effort to assist in the transfer of the patient to another healthcare provider who will comply

They must assist and bear the costs of transportation to the other healthcare provider if it is not covered by insurance

If no other facility can be found, or if the patient refuses to move, they may ignore the decisions of the patient or agent.

Required

A healthcare worker is free to refuse to comply with the wishes of a document or agent if they believe the proposed action would result in medical care that, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, would have no medical basis in addressing a need or condition of the patient? *

False

True

True or False: With limited exceptions, If a woman is found to be pregnant, healthcare workers are obliged to provide life-sustaining treatment, nutrition, and hydration, despite any other directions in an Advance Healthcare Directive? *

False

True

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