Asked by Garrett Jeffcoat on Sep 27, 2024
The nurse is caring for a dying patient. Which intervention is considered futile?
A) Giving pain medication for pain
B) Providing oral care every 5 hours
C) Administering the influenza vaccine
D) Supporting lower extremities with pillows
Administering Influenza
The process of giving a vaccine or other treatments to prevent or manage influenza (flu) infections.
Giving Pain Medication
The act of administering analgesics to alleviate pain, often a critical component in the management of patients' comfort and recovery process.
Providing Oral Care
The practice of maintaining cleanliness and health of the mouth and teeth, particularly important in healthcare settings to prevent infection.
- Examine ethical challenges in patient care and implement ethical tenets such as nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice to solve them.
- Discern and manage ethical obstacles in the allocation of healthcare resources and the determination of treatment options.
Learning Objectives
- Examine ethical challenges in patient care and implement ethical tenets such as nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice to solve them.
- Discern and manage ethical obstacles in the allocation of healthcare resources and the determination of treatment options.
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