Ideally, an advance directive should be developed by the:
a. family, if the patient is in critical condition.
b. patient as part of the hospital admission process.
c. patient before hospitalization.
d. patient's healthcare surrogate.
C
Advance directives should be made and signed while a person is in good health and in a state of mind to make decisions about what should happen if he or she becomes incapacitated (e.g., during a critical illness). Families help to make decisions based on written advance directives, but families are not responsible for developing them for the patient. Developing advance directives during the admission process is not feasible, and the patient may not be capable of making an advance directive. The surrogate or proxy is one who has been already designated by a person to make healthcare decisions based on written advance directives.
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