1) identify the cultural/ethnic you have selected.
2)summarize significant findings about this group that inform attitudes and preferences around end-of-life care (e,g., inform consent,
life support, advance directives, communication styles, and/or decision making, etc.), and cite your sources of information.
3) what are the challenges in ensuring that patients (or their surrogates) understand their rights and that their consent is truly
informed?
4) what are the legal/ethical implications of these challenges for administrators? how can they help prevent cultural misunderstandings or discrimination, and address problems when they do they arise.
references
palliative care for Latino patients and their families: "whenever we prayed, she wept" Alexander Smith, Rebecca Sudore, Eliseo Perez-Stable 2009