AAMA CMA Practice Question
What does the Patient Self Determination Act require healthcare providers to do?
Healthcare providers must inform patients about their rights to make medical decisions and ask about their existence of advance directives.
All healthcare institutions provide life-sustaining treatments to patients unless a DNR order is presented upon admission.
Medical facilities are obligated to perform all invasive procedures as a way to respect patient autonomy.
Healthcare providers are required to assign a medical durable power of attorney for all admitted patients.