Question: A Skilled Long-term Care Facility Patient With Severe Dementia Tells An RDN That She No Longer Wants To Be Fed Via Her Gastrostomy Feeding Tube. She Has No Advanced Directive. The Resident’s Daughter Wants Her Mother To Be Fed. What Is The RDN’s Role In This Situation And What Should Be Done? For This Assignment I Would Like You To Answer The Following …

A skilled long-term care facility patient with severe dementiatells an RDN that she no longer wants to be fed via her gastrostomyfeeding tube. She has no advanced directive. The resident’sdaughter wants her mother to be fed. What is the RDN’s role in thissituation and what should be done?

For this assignment I would like you to answer the followingquestions for each of the case study

• Is the situation described an ethical issue?

• Is the situation described a business dispute?

• What principle(s) of the Code of Ethics does it relate to andhow/why?

• What are the key issues?

• How might you handle as a colleague?