Practice Question
A home health nurse is caring for a client who has terminal cancer and no longer wants to receive enteral tube feedings. Which of the following actions should the nurse take?
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Correct Answer:
Ask the client to sign an informed consent form.
Rationale:
📝 Informed consent is necessary when a competent adult chooses to refuse or withdraw from a medical treatment, including enteral nutrition, even if that refusal may hasten death in terminal illness.
📝 The nurse's role is to ensure the client is making an informed and voluntary decision, understands the consequences of refusing treatment, and then properly documents that decision by obtaining informed consent.
📝 Terminally ill patients have the legal and ethical right to decline life-sustaining interventions, and informed consent confirms that the choice was made knowingly and without coercion.
📝 This action promotes autonomy and self-determination, which are core principles of ethical nursing practice and end-of-life care, especially in the home health setting.
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This question is from RN Community Health~2019 Exam 1 which contains 58 questions.
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Question Details
- Category: RN Nursing Exam(s)
- Subcategory: ATI Exam(s)
- Domain: RN ATI Community Health
- Answer Choices: 4