Assignment: Preparing for Advanced Directives
How much would you be willing to go through to extend your life, possibly while compromising the quality of that life?
With the advancement of medicine, technology can extend life; however, at what point does the medical profession withhold or withdraw life-sustaining care? Advance directives are living wills and essential to ensure a patient receives or does not receive the medical treatment they would want, yet few people have them in place and even fewer know what they are or what they are for.
Advanced directives are written forms acknowledging your medical wishes should you ever be in a position where you are unable to voice those wishes for yourself. Providing an advanced directive means telling people you love what they should do so they aren’t put in the place of having to try and guess what you would have wanted—Would you want to be resuscitated with shocks? Would you want to be on a ventilator? Would you want a feeding tube? How long would you want any of these?
To Prepare: ( note my state is MD)
Go to one of the following websites and download the free forms for your specific state.
• https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/financial-legal/free-printable-advance-directives/
• http://www.caringinfo.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3289
• https://www.uslivingwillregistry.com/formslist.shtm
Fill out those forms for yourself with your own directives. Then, if possible, have the talk with someone you love about the choices you have made. You are encouraged to make several copies and give one to your physician, one to a family member, and one filed with your personal papers (remember you will want to update the forms every few years). You will not submit your advanced directive to this course.
In a 4-5 page paper:
• Reflect on the experience completing an Advanced Directive. Consider:
o What was it like thinking and talking about the “what if’s,” “when’s,” and “why’s”?
o How did you feel when thinking about and talking with your loved one about the choices you would make in different medical scenarios?
o How willing were others to talk with you about your wishes and choices you made in the Advanced Directive?
• Explain any insights you gained from this activity that might help you as a social worker.
• Describe specific skills you would use to 1) talk to clients about Advanced Directives, 2) assist clients in completing an Advanced Directive, and 3) help families to apply an Advanced Directive.
• Explain one ethical issue (e.g., medical, social, or public health) that is relevant to a medical Advanced Directive.
• Explain two sides of the ethical issue.
• Describe the course of action you might take to address the ethical issue as the medical social worker responsible for this patient, explaining the specific benefits your decisi
Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the resources and the current literature using appropriate APA format and style.
Be sure to support your responses with specific references to the resources and the current literature using appropriate APA format and style.. If you are using additional articles, be sure to provide full APA-formatted citations for your references both within the text and on the referencing section. PLEASE ALWAYS INCLUDE THE REQIRED TEXTBOOK as part of the references and if possible some of the REQUIRED READING if applicable. Please always start by referring to THE TEXTBOOK, below
REQUIRED TEXTBOOK
Hospital Social Work 2006
Author: Beder, Joan
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-95067-1
ISBN-10: 0-415-95067-8
Edition/Copyright: 2006
Publisher: Routledge N. Y.
REQUIRED
Handbook of Health Social Work 3RD 19
Author: Gehlert, Sarah
ISBN-13: 978-1-119-42072-9
ISBN-10: 1-119-42072-5
Edition/Copyright: 3RD 19
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
REQUIRED
Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context 4TH 16
Author: McCoyd, Judith L.M.
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-92436-9
ISBN-10: 1-138-92436-9
Edition/Copyright: 4TH 16
Publisher: Routledge N. Y.
Learning Resources
Required Readings
Beder, J. (2006). Hospital social work: The interface of medicine and caring. New York, NY: Routledge.
• Chapter 8, “Oncology Social Work with Adults” (pp. 81–94)
Gehlert, S., & Browne, T. (Eds.). (2019). Handbook of health social work (3rd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
• Chapter 19, “Oncology Social Work” (pp. 440-458)
Meuche, G. (2017). An uninvited guest: Addressing students’ death anxiety in oncology social work field placement. Field Educator, 7(1), 1-7.
Schroepfer, T. (2011). Oncology social work in palliative care. Current Problems in Cancer, 35(6), 357–364 [Erratum. Current Problems in Cancer, 36(1), 20].
Kent, E. E., Parry, C., Montoya, M. J., Sender, L. S., Morris, R. A., & Anton-Culver, H. (2012). “You’re too young for this”: Adolescent and young adults’ perspectives on cancer survivorship. Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 30(2), 260– 279.
National Association of Social Workers. (2005). NASW standards for social work practice in health care settings. Retrieved from https://www.socialworkers.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=fFnsRHX-4HE%3D&portalid=0
Zafar, S. Y. (2018). Price of cancer care and its tax on quality of life. Journal of Oncology Practice, 14(2), 69-72.
Zavagli, V., Miglietta, E., Varani, S., Pannuti, R., Brighetti, G. & Pannuti, F. (2016). Associations between caregiving worries and psychophysicial well-being. An investigation on home- cared cancer patients family caregivers. Supportive Care in Cancer, 24(2), 857-863.
Optional Resources
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2004). A national action plan for cancer survivorship: Advancing public health strategies. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/survivors/pdf/plan.pdf
Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Psychosocial Services to Cancer Patients. (2008). The psychosocial needs of cancer patients. In N. E. Adler & A. E. K. Page (Eds.), Cancer care for the whole patient: Meeting psychosocial health needs. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK4011/
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