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Learning Check: About Advance Directives
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Learning Check
Check your understanding. Choose the best answer for each multiple choice question, then respond to the open response questions in your own words. Review the answer key at the end.
1. What is an Advance Directive designed to do?
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Guarantee a person receives every possible medical treatment
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Allow a person to express their healthcare wishes and name someone to make decisions if they can't speak for themselves
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Only apply to people over 65
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Replace the need for family conversations
2. Which statement best reflects the CHW's role with Advance Directives?
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A
Filling out the legal form for the patient
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Deciding what medical treatments the patient should choose
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Creating space for reflection, helping people identify what matters, and connecting them to the conversation and resources they need
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Only bringing it up if the patient asks first
3. A patient's closest family member lives 500 miles away, but a longtime neighbor visits weekly and knows the patient well. Which response best reflects what you learned about choosing a healthcare representative?
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The family member should automatically be the representative, since they're blood relatives
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Help the patient consider naming both — a primary representative and a local backup who can be present in an emergency
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Only immediate family can be named as a healthcare representative
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The neighbor shouldn't be considered since they aren't related
4. A patient you are just getting to know mentions she already has an advance directive, signed four years ago and filed in her chart. What do you do?
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Nothing. She already has one, so the work is done
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Review it only if she asks you to
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Review it only if she has had a new diagnosis or hospital stay
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Review it with her, as you would with every patient, so she can confirm it still reflects her wishes and note anything that needs updating
5. What did you learn from completing your own Advance Directive?
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6. What, if anything, are you still wondering about?
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7. Did you run into any technical issues completing this module (broken links, loading, navigation problems)?
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No issues
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A few minor hiccups
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Yes, something was frustrating or broken
8. Was anything confusing, missing, or worth adding?
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