Palliative Care Nursing

at a Glance

Christine Ingleton, Philip Larkin

Multiple Choice: Chapter 53 Withdrawing and withholding Life-Sustaining care

Question 1. People often receive inappropriate treatments to try to prolong life because:

A Doctors swear a Hippocratic Oath that means they must preserve life at all costs
B Doctors do not like to accept that the patient is dying because it appears that they have failed
C Patients often ask for treatments to continue and patients have the right to decide what treatment they receive
D Treatment decisions for people with deteriorating illness are often complex and it is not easy to know what action will cause the least suffering in the long term