Advanced Directives
PURPOSE
To familiarize staff members and patients and their family members with legal responsibilities and Facility policies in responding to patient emergencies and to provide needed information to other health care facilities in the event of an emergency patient transfer to a higher level of care.
POLICY
Patients will be informed during the preadmission process that advance directives for "do not resuscitate" are not honored at this Facility. In every instance of an emergency or life-threatening situation, advanced cardiac life support procedures will be instituted and patients will be transferred to a higher level of care.
Patients who express an interest in formulating advance directives will be given information and referred to their primary physician. |
