Patients Rights and Choices

What is client autonomy?

• the patients right to choose without provider influence

• the patients right to chose without provider influence

• the patients right to choose with provider influence

• the patients right to chose with provider inflence

What is informed consent?

• the provider must tell the patient about the benefits, risks, and alternatives in any procedure

• the right of patients to choose their medical care

• patient's wishes at the end of life

• defining the type of health treatment and care in certain situations

What is client autonomy?

• the provider must tell the patient about the benefits, risks, and alternatives in any procedure

• the right of patients to choose their medical care

• patient's wishes at the end of life

• defining the type of health treatment and care in certain situations

What is an advance directive?

• the provider must tell the patient about the benefits, risks, and alternatives in any procedure

• the right of patients to choose their medical care

• patient's wishes at the end of life

• defining the type of health treatment and care in certain situations

Do patients have the right to refuse any procedure or medication?

• yes

• no

Is euthanasia legal in Quebec?

• no

• yes

Informed consent is a type of

• advance directive

• end of life

The patient has a right to considerate and respectful care.

• True

• False

Patients have the right to obtain from their physician complete current information concerning their diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis in terms they can be reasonably expected to understand.

• True

• False

The patient has the right to expect that all communication and records pertaining to his or her care should be treated as confidential.

• True

• False