Advance Directives Flashcards
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What is an Advanced Directive
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Spoken and written instructions about your future medical care and treatment
2
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When will Advanced Directives be used
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Once you are no longer of sound mind
As long as you are able to decide and express your own decisions , your AD will not be used
3
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Are Advanced Directives Required
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NO
4
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What happens if you do not have an Advanced Directive
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House Bill 1119 in Indiana Healthcare Consent Hierarchy if nothing is in writing or a court a pointed individual is not appointed
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Types of Advanced Directives Recognized in Indiana
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- Talk directly to your Physician and Family
- Organ and tissue donation
- Health care representative
- Living Will Declaration
- Life-Prolonging Procedures Declaration
- Psychiatric advance directive
- Out of Hospital DO Not Resuscitate and Order
- Physicians Orders for Scope of Treatment ( POST)
- Power of Attorney = Check for what the power Attorney is for they have a wide range
