VATI Fundamentals Post-Assessment
A nurse is caring for a client who asks the nurse to explain what advance directives
are. Which of the following statements should the nurse make?
A. "The health care proxy is a document that explains your wishes for care when
you can no longer do so."
B. "Be sure that your family agrees with your choices before preparing your
advance directives."
C. "The provider consults your living will in the event that you are unable to make
health care decisions."
D. "Be sure you know what you want to write in your advance directives, because
you can't change them later." - correct answer C. "The provider consults your
living will in the event that you are unable to make health care decisions."
Living wills direct care when clients do not have the capacity to make decisions. The
provider will review the client's living will and plan treatment according to the
client's preferences. A health care proxy is a document that appoints another
individual to make health care decisions for the client. Although the family is usually
involved, along with the provider, in helping to decide a client's decisional capacity,
no one else has to agree with the client's choices. The nurse should instruct the
client that they can change their advanced directives at any time.
A nurse provides a medical interpreter to convey discharge instructions to a client
who speaks a different language than the nurse. This action is an example of which
of the following ethical values?
A. Advocacy
B. Nonmaleficence
C. Veracity
D. Justice - correct answer A. Advocacy
Advocacy is the ethical principle of supporting the client in every situation. The
nurse supports this client by using a medical interpreter to ensure that the client
