Content Overview
- Summary
- If You Are Hearing Or Vision Impaired, Or If English Is Not Your First Language, Ask For Help.
- Learn What Is Supposed To Happen On A Daily Basis.
- Become Acquainted With The Staff
- Do What You Can To Avoid Infections And Medical Errors
- Have Guests. The more the better. It Helps
- Get The Care You Need When You Need It
- Keep In Touch With Your Primary Care Physician
- How To Take Steps To Permit Sleep
- Know Your Rights
- You Do Not Have To Put Up With Unnecessary Pain
- How To Complain When You Don't Get What You Need
- What You Can Do To Prevent Surgical Errors
- Common Words Professionals Use In A Hospital
- Ask For Spirituality Care If You Want It
- Do What You Can To Avoid Identity Theft
- Think About How You Look
- Ask If You Are On "Observation Status"
- Consider Health Care Power of Attorney and Other Advance Directives
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Consider Health Care Power of Attorney and Other Advance Directives
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A Health Care Power of Attorney, Living Wills and other Advance Directives provide a method for telling doctors and other medical personnel what treatments you do or do not want in case you become unable to speak for yourself.
Everyone should have a Living Will and should consider appointing a person to act for you (a "proxy") by having a Healthcare Power Of Attorney. What you put in the documents, or instruct the person who will act as your proxy, is up to you. These documents help assure that what you want is what happens.
Be sure the hospital has a copy of your Living Will, Health Care Proxy and/or Do Not Resuscitate Order if you have these documents.
Written with:
Herbert Spiers, Ph.D.
New York, NY
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