NURSE-UN 1243 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Healthcare Proxy, Assisted Suicide, Advance Healthcare Directive
29 Apr 2019
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Advance care planning: a process that enables individuals to make plans about their future health care. Advance directive: a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity. Aid in dying: the process by which a terminally ill, mentally competent adult obtains a prescription from a doctor that they can self-administer, if they choose to do so, in order to achieve a peaceful death. It is legal in the united states in six states and the district of columbia. Assisted suicide: suicide is the act of taking one"s own life. In assisted suicide, the means to end a patient"s life is provided to the patient (i. e. medication or a weapon) with knowledge of the patient"s intention. Unlike euthanasia, in assisted suicide, someone makes the means of death available, but does not act as the direct agent of death.
