Understanding Advance Directives

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Advance directives are essential documents that help ensure a person’s healthcare preferences are respected, especially when they cannot communicate these decisions themselves. Nurses play a critical role in understanding, facilitating, and honoring advance directives in patient care. Which of the following statements regarding advance directives are true? Select all that apply.

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Advance directives are legally binding documents.

Patients can change or revoke their advance directives at any time.

Healthcare providers must comply with a valid advance directive.

Advance directives can include a living will and a healthcare power of attorney.

Advance directives ensure that patients' wishes regarding end-of-life care are followed.

Patients must be 18 years or older to create an advance directive.

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