What Should I Do With The Advance Directive After I Sign It?

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What Should I Do With The Advance Directive After I Sign It?

Give your doctor, nurse and person you appoint to make your medical decisions on your behalf, your family and anyone else who might be involved in your care, a copy of your advance directive and discuss it with them. Keep the original in a safe, but easily accessible place.

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Q: What Is An Advance Directive?
A: A written document that tells what a person wants or does not want if he/she in the future cannot make his/her wishes known regarding medical treatment.
Q: Do I Need To Have It Notarized?
A: No. The advance directive can be properly executed with the signature of two witnesses.
Q: What Is Artificial Nutrition And Hydration?
A: When food and water are fed to a person through a tube.
Q: What Is An Autopsy?
A: It's an examination done on a dead body to find the cause of death.
Q: What Is Comfort Care?
A: Care that helps to keep a person comfortable but does not make him/her better. Bathing, turning, keeping a person's lips moist are types of comfort care.
Q: What Is Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (Cpr)?
A: Treatment to try and restart a person's breathing or heartbeat. CPR may be done by pushing on the chest, by putting a tube down the throat, or by other treatment.
Q: What Is A Durable Power Of Attorney For Health Care?
A: An advance directive that appoints someone to make medical decisions for a person if in the future he/she cannot make his/her own medical decisions.
Q: What Is Life-Sustaining Treatment?
A: Any medical treatment that is used to keep a person from dying. A breathing machine, CPR, and artificial nutrition and hydration are examples of lifesustaining …
Q: What Is Organ And Tissue Donation?
A: When a person permits his/her organs (such as eyes or kidneys) and other parts of the body (such as skin) to be removed after death to be transplanted for use by … More
Q: What Is A Persistent Vegetative State?
A: When a person is unconscious with no hope of regaining consciousness even with medical treatment. The body may move and eyes may be open, but as far as anyone can … More