PPT-Advance Healthcare Directives: An Overview

Prof Mary Donnelly Law School University College Cork A legally enforceable decision about healthcare made in advance which will remain enforceable in the event of loss of capacity Origins in Jehovahs Witness communities. Information For Consumers. West Virginia Mental Health Planning Council. This information was developed to raise awareness of Psychiatric Advance Directives. It is not intended to provide legal or medical advice.. Information For Family Members. West Virginia Mental Health Planning Council. This information was developed to raise awareness of Psychiatric Advance Directives. It is not intended to provide legal or medical advice.. Information for Providers. West Virginia Mental Health Planning Council. This information was developed to raise awareness of Psychiatric Advance Directives. It is not intended to provide legal or medical advice.. RN, DNP, GNP-BC, APNP. Nurse Practitioner. Protecting . Your . Health . Care . Wishes. Milwaukee Center for Independence. Since . 1938, the Milwaukee Center for Independence has been assisting individuals and families with special needs and barriers to . Daryl Pullman, Ph.D.. Faculty of Medicine. Objectives. To better understand something of the context in which AHCDs are prepared. i.e. some important issues and distinctions with regard to end-of-life care. Eilionóir Flynn & Piers Gooding. Centre for Disability Law & Policy. National University of Ireland Galway. Ireland’s Assisted Decision-Making. Bill . & Advance Directives. Eilionóir Flynn. and Client Rights. Lessons. . 1. Advance Directives . Go. 2. Client Rights . Go. Advance Directives and Client Rights. T. ABLE. O. F. C. ONTENTS. Lesson 1– Advance Directives. Advance directives. Training Outline . Learning Objectives. Honoring Veterans’ Health Care Preferences. What is Advance. Care Planning? What is an Advance Directive?. Decision-Making Capacity. VHA Handbook. 1004.02, . Aultman. and Clergy Collaboration. Jeffrey Marsh, M.D.. October 29, 2015. Case example . 76 year old widow with sudden cerebral . hemorrhage.. Family from out of town gathered and uncertain of her . Starting the conversation & uploading into MyUFHealth. The Problem. Disconnect between patient’s end-of-life wishes and family/caregivers/healthcare team awareness. 53. % . of physicians did not . Antoinette McNeil, BSN, RN, CCRN. Washington Adventist University. Ethics and the Adult Educator (Online). NUED 545. Khadene. . Taffe. , DNP Student, MSN-NE, BSN, RN. April 23, 2013. Patients live longer due to technology of ventilators, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, intensive care units and use of antibiotics and feeding tubes (. Advance Directives . are instructions created by an individual to administer, withhold, or withdraw life-sustaining procedures in the event of a terminal or irreversible condition . These instructions explain the individuals wishes for health care in the event they become incompetent or otherwise mentally/physically incapable of communication. Nathan A. Kottkamp, JD, MA (Bioethics). National Healthcare Decisions Day, Founder & Chair. McGuireWoods, LLP, Partner. April 16. Founded by Nathan Kottkamp out of years of experience on ethics committees dealing with situations when failed to make their healthcare wishes known.. As a VA patient you have a say in the health care you receive. Normally your doctor explains your WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ADVANCE DIRECTIVES CONTINUED Your advance directive is used only when you