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Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare

Discusses living wills and power of attorney.

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    Running Head: Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare Title: Course Name: Topic Name: Professor’s Name: Student Name: Date: In the context of healthcare, explain the legal and ethical foundations of advance directives, specifically focusing on the role of the Patient Self - Determination Act (PSDA) and the ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, non - maleficence, and justice. Additionally, discuss how advance directives, such as a Living Will and Medical Power of Attorney, are valuable in guiding healthcare decision - making when a patient becomes incapacitated. What are some real - life situations where these directives would be beneficial for patients and healthcare providers? Word count requirement: 1500 - 2000 words

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    Running Head: Living Will and Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare The term "advance directives" mainly refers to treatment predilection and the description of a surrogate decision - maker in the consequence that a n individual should become incapable to make medical determination on his or her own behalf ( Perkins HS , 2007) . Advance directives are essential tools for anyone. It guides choices for caregivers and doctors if you're severely ill, critically injured, in a coma position , in the late phase of dementia. Importantly advance directive enables a person to feel about what they would like to ensue to them in the event that they lose the capability to take well decisions about their care ( Perkins HS , 2007) . Also a dvance directives are important documents that should be integrated with each individual's own medical records. Legal and ethical basis for Advance Directives Legal Basis It is a conventional legal theory that a legitimately capable person is authoriz ed to consent or refuse medical treatment even if the declination consequence in death. In the year 1990 , US Congress passed the valuable Patient Self Determination Act (PSDA), which was mainly established after the ruling of Supreme Court’s in the case of Cruzan v Missouri Department of Health in which it was found that it was adequate to require " convincing and clear evidence" of a patient's desires for removal of life support ( J Virmani, L J Schneiderman & R M Kaplan , 1994 ). The Patient Self Determination Act support s the rights of adult’s men or women to make treatment decisions, as well as the right to decline treatment. It also obliges the health care contributor or providers in each state to inform patients of that state's guiding principle regarding advance instruction s and on the individual's right to make proxy directives or instructional directives or concerning to possible future medical treatment ( J Virmani, L J Schneiderman & R M Kaplan , 1994 ). Also the PSDA encourages patients to plan advance directives.

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