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Course Sample:
1: Defining advance directives All competent adults have the right to accept or refuse medical care and treatment. Competence is the patient's ability to make decisions concerning long and short term healthcare goals. These decisions are made with logical, sequential reasoning even though they may not conform to usual standards of care. Legally, incompetence means the inability of a person to manage his/her own affairs due to illness, injury, or mental debility. Medical evaluation and a court order determine competence. A handwritten or verbal declaration by the patient can be considered an advance directive, but two general categories of documents, the Advance Medical Directive, or Living Will, and the Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare, or Healthcare Proxy provide the most clear and convincing proof of the patient's wishes. These documents enable the patient to declare in advance, preferences for care in the event of an incapacitating illness or injury in which there is no hope of substantial improvement. |
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