1. All 50 states and the District of Columbia have advance directive legislation in place;
however, the legislation varies greatly from state to state. Nurses, therefore, must constantly …

Advance directives are legal documents that outline an individual's preferences regarding
major medical decisions. These directives specify the healthcare options that an individual …

Joan M. Teno and her colleagues report a number of illuminating findings in “Do Formal
Advance Directives Affect Resuscitation Decisions and the Use of Resources for Seriously Ill …

As medicine progresses, many people are increasingly concerned about being dependent
on physicians in times of severe illness. The wish to influence future medical treatment, and …

Advance directives are becoming more common in the health care system in the United
States. Advance directives include “living wills”,“durable powers of attorney for health …

Emergency physicians often encounter clinical situations in which medical resuscitation may
not coincide with patient expectations. These situations present complicated medical, legal …

The US population wants the ability to decide what healthcare it will receive. Our society has
formalized this concept in ethics and law, based on patient autonomy, which demonstrates …

What Are Advance Directives? Advance directives are written instructions that you prepare
to help guide your medical care. They apply in certain situations, such as if you are …

'The goal of an [advance directive] is to have open, serious, and intensive conversalion
between seriously ill people and their families, fiends and pysicians about the prospects of …