ReaganTurner_5.3 by Reagan Turner https://padlet.com/20reaganbturner/1lxw8ohxiu0s Patient Self Determination Act of 1990 en-us 2018-06-28 22:44:28 UTC 2025-10-25 04:53:39 UTC hello@padlet.com Summary 20reaganbturner https://padlet.com/20reaganbturner/1lxw8ohxiu0s/wish/269044943 Requires all types of healthcare facilities (hospitals, hospice programs, home health agencies, etc.) to...

1) Inform patients of their rights to make decisions about medical care
2) Periodically document patient's wishes regarding their medical care 
3) Not discriminate against person's who have not though about an advance directive 
4) Ensure that all medical care requests and advance directives are legal by State Laws 
5) Provide educational programs for staff, patients, etc on ethical issues concerning patient self-determination and advance directives.


]]> 2018-06-30 21:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/20reaganbturner/1lxw8ohxiu0s/wish/269044943 Facts 20reaganbturner https://padlet.com/20reaganbturner/1lxw8ohxiu0s/wish/269045319 -Passed by the United States Congress in 1990 as an amendment to the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990
-law does not apply to individual physicians
-Patient self rationing of expensive medical care at the end of life through the process of the advance directive under the provisions of the 1991 PSDA is discouraged because the patients have not had end-of-life conversations with the treating physicians]]> 2018-06-30 21:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/20reaganbturner/1lxw8ohxiu0s/wish/269045319 Requirements 20reaganbturner https://padlet.com/20reaganbturner/1lxw8ohxiu0s/wish/269045722 ~Patients are given written notices of the documentation of all decision-making rights and advanced directives
~Facilities find of if the patient already has an advanced directive and make note of medical records
~Must provide education about advanced directives
~providers are not allowed to discriminately admit or treat patients based on whether or not they have an advance health care directive]]> 2018-06-30 21:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/20reaganbturner/1lxw8ohxiu0s/wish/269045722 Purpose 20reaganbturner https://padlet.com/20reaganbturner/1lxw8ohxiu0s/wish/269045990 { inform patients of their rights regarding decisions toward their own medical care, and ensure that these rights are communicated by the health care provider }]]> 2018-06-30 21:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/20reaganbturner/1lxw8ohxiu0s/wish/269045990