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notresuscitate (DNR) order can also be part of an advance directive. Hospital staff try to help any patient whose heart has stopped or who has stopped breathing. They do this with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). A DNR is a request not to have CPR if your heart stops or if you stop breathing.

There are currently two types of DNR orders: 1) "DNR Comfort Care," and 2) "DNR Comfort Care - Arrest." Upon the issuance of either order, standard forms of identification are provided for in OAC rule 3701-62-04.

A Vermont medical power of attorney form permits a resident to elect a healthcare surrogate who will execute their medical preferences while they are incapacitated and can no longer make competent decisions. The surrogate will be authorized to accept or deny healthcare treatments on the patient's behalf.

Email, mail or fax a copy of the newly signed advance directive form AND an Authorization to Change form* to: Email: VADRSubmissions@usacpr.com (Read the electronic submission instructions) Mail: Vermont Advance Directive Registry, P.O. Box 2789, Westfield, NJ 07091-2789. Fax: (908) 654-1919.

So, a DNR is a document signed by a physician when someone is dying, death is inevitable, and the eventual cause is irrelevant. An advanced directive is telling your medical agent in advance that if you ever get into that situation, you might like a DNR or not.

Advance directives are legally binding, so doctors have to follow them. False. Advance directives are legally recognized documents and doctors must respect your known wishes, but doctors can always refuse to comply with your wishes if they have an objection of conscience or consider your wishes medically inappropriate.