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Category - Care Management

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A group of student nurses discusses durable health care power of attorneys and living wills. The nurse intervenes if one of the student nurses says:
  1. “A client can combine living will and medical power of attorney in one form.”
  2. “A living will does not allow the client to select someone to make decisions for him.”
  3. “A living will states the kind of health care the client wants or does not want under certain circumstances, whereas durable health care power of attorney allows the client to choose someone else to make health care decisions for her/him if the client is too sick to make them.”
  4. “A durable power of attorney does not allow the client to give specific instructions to the representative about the type of care he or she would want to receive.”
Explanation
Answer: D - A durable power of attorney allows the client to name the person who will be making the decisions for him or her if the time comes when he or she is incapacitated. The client can give specific instructions to the representative.
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