Indiana Institute of Technology Marys Parents and Advance Directive Analysis Week 4 Case Study: Mary’s parents and advance directive? Mary recently learne

Indiana Institute of Technology Marys Parents and Advance Directive Analysis Week 4 Case Study: Mary’s parents and advance directive?

Mary recently learned about advance directives in her health information legal class.The information she has obtained, along with her knowledge of the Terri Schiavo case (2005), has convinced her of the benefits in executing an advance directive if she were to become incompetent.Mary is aware that her parents feel advance directives are wrong.However, she thinks they might be misinformed about the purpose and function of advance directives.

How should Mary go about deciding what type of advance directive is best for her?
Where should she begin to prepare such a document?
What cultural issues should Mary be concerned about when discussing advance directives with her parents and others?
How might she best educate her parents about advance directives?
Should she urge her friends and other family members to create advance directives?

Requirements:

Review the scenario and answer the questions, providing a well-thought out response to each question in a Word document.

Purpose:

To demonstrate your knowledge of legal concepts of advance directives
To demonstrate how cultural issues, affect health and healthcare quality
To demonstrate how to communicate with others issues that are important to health and quality of healthcare

CLOs covered:

#1 Analyze legal concepts and principles to the practice of HIM
#4 Assess how cultural issues affect health, healthcare quality, cost and HIM

Evaluation Criteria:

Did you review and respond to each questions?
Did you provide a well thought out response to each question?
Did you apply the legal principles of disclosing information when answering each question?
Did you use correct grammar and spelling and meet the submission requirements?