Question

As a health care manager, you may have the opportunity to interact with patients who are faced with making decisions about advance care planning, for themselves, or a loved one.

For this assignment, you will define and describe the various forms of advance care planning available to most patients.

• Using a table or similar organized layout in a Word document, create a handout for your patients.
• Include a minimum of four types of advance care planning in your handout.
• For each type: include the name, definition/description, how qualification is determined, important facts, and any other details you determine necessary (for example, Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement).
• Include a minimum of two scholarly sources on a separate reference page; APA format should be followed throughout.

Answer 1

ANSWER - Advance Care Planning -

Advance care planning involves learning about the types of decisions that might need to be made , considering those decisions ahead of time and then letting others know - both your family and your healthcare provider.

Advance Care Planning Decisions -

Sometimes decisions must be made about the use of emergency treatment to keep a client alive.Doctors can use several artificial or mechanical ways to try to do this.Decisions that might come up at this time relate to -

• CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation)
• Ventilator use
• Artificial nutrition (tube feeding)
• comfort care

CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation)

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation might restore heartbeat if the heart stop or is in a life threatening abnormal rythm.It involves repeatedly pushing on the chest with force, while putting air into the lungs.This force has to be quiet strong or sometime ribs are broken or a lung collapses. Electric shocks known as defibrillator and medicine might also be used as a part of the process. The heart of a young otherwise healthy person might resume beating normally after CPR.