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Windows is the most widely-used operating system. However, Windows does not contain any default application that can directly edit document. In this case, you can download CocoDoc's desktop software for Windows, which can help you to work on documents easily.

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How to Edit Health Care Surrogate on Mac

macOS comes with a default feature - Preview, to open PDF files. Although Mac users can view PDF files and even mark text on it, it does not support editing. Using CocoDoc, you can edit your document on Mac instantly.

Follow the effortless instructions below to start editing:

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  • Edit, fill and sign your file by utilizing some online tools.
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How to Edit PDF Health Care Surrogate with G Suite

G Suite is a widely-used Google's suite of intelligent apps, which is designed to make your job easier and increase collaboration with each other. Integrating CocoDoc's PDF editor with G Suite can help to accomplish work easily.

Here are the instructions to do it:

  • Open Google WorkPlace Marketplace on your laptop.
  • Search for CocoDoc PDF Editor and download the add-on.
  • Select the document that you want to edit and find CocoDoc PDF Editor by selecting "Open with" in Drive.
  • Edit and sign your file using the toolbar.
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PDF Editor FAQ

Do you have health care power of attorney, how do you decide to have one?

Yes. It’s very important. A health care power of attorney gives the holder of the power of attorney greater enforcement rights than just a simply health-care surrogate designation.

What answer would you give an old person when they tell you they want to die?

I have been in this situation.The most important thing you can do is honor their wishes -- unless there is real evidence that they can pull through - this requires research on your part; especially if you are the legal health care surrogate.But... You have to honor their wishes.... But like I said, it's a little different when you're the legal health care surrogate.For instance, If there is a substantial will, and you let the person go when they could possibly pull through and you are the legal health care surrogate, and their legal directive says to resuscitate -- their life insurance company might step in... They may even step in if the legal directive was do not resuscitate but they told the doctor upon admission that they want to be alive at all costs.In my case, my relative wanted to be resuscitated no matter what, and the doctors all said to let her go.... I always told the doctors that we had to honor her wishes.Ultimately, what you say to this person, especially in cases involving life and death are things that you will have to live with for the rest of your life -- so, with that being said... choose your words carefully.I guess the final word is, expect them to change their mind constantly... And don't blame them... we aren't in their position, and we don't know how we ourselves will act when we are (someday) in that position.DISCLAIMER: I'm not a lawyer.

As a nurse, what has saddened you the most when a patient took off their clothes?

I thought hard about the answer to this question. I have seen a lot of really sad things.As a home health nurse, I visited a woman in her forties. She took off her wet shirt (and I removed the large, wet hospital dressing) to reveal a large, open, and copiously weeping breast tumor. Her sister had died of breast cancer a few years earlier, which was the reason she was afraid to have her “lump” looked at by a doctor. Her denial was a death sentence. I hugged her every time I left her home, because she was so alone and it was the only thing I could do that meant anything to her.But most sad instances had nothing to do with the removal of clothing.In the hospital, there was a prisoner in his early twenties. His crimes were those of survival, not of hurting others. At the start of my twelve hour night shift he spoke broken English (native tongue was Spanish). He was actively dying of AIDS, and by mid-shift he was reduced to mumbling Spanish beneath his oxygen mask. This and thrashing in pain against the shackle on his right leg. On exposing the leg, I saw a bloody wound beneath the shackle. I begged the guard, who was obviously afraid to go near the man in the bed, to remove the shackle. The prisoner didn't have the clarity of mind to consider escaping. The guard repeatedly told me that it was against regulations, whether the man was dying or not. I wrapped a folded washcloth around the leg beneath the shackle, but had to keep repositioning it, since it did little to resolve the pain and resulting thrashing. The patient continuously mumbled in Spanish and kept removing his oxygen mask. I had never felt so helpless. There was nothing I could do. He didn't understand my trying to console him by talking, holding his hand, stroking his forehead… He was dead before the end of my shift. Years later, a mother to young men, I find myself thinking about his mother.I visited a man in his fifties from India. He trusted his doctor, as she was “from my part of the world.” He could have found many good doctors from that part of the world, but the one he stuck with didn't put him through the tests needed to diagnose his axillary lymphoma in time, though it was surgically removed. He told me his biggest regrets while I completed the excruciatingly painful packing of the deep, narrow wound with a thin strip of gauze. His biggest fear was leaving his wife and three beautiful teenage daughters alone, which he did only months later.There was an older man who I visited. He had been a professional singer, but due to throat cancer, much of the left side of his face and neck had been removed. He typed on his laptop to communicate, as we sat side by side on his couch. His kids were in touch by email, and made short visits, but lived across the country. He didn't want them to lose their jobs and disrupt their families. He lived alone, and since he was pretty independent, he didn't qualify for other paid assistance. I would visit three times a week, helping him to manage his tube feedings and portable suction to clear the secretions from his throat. I did my best to help him with his fear of choking at night when he was alone, unable to use the phone. I hugged him like a surrogate daughter when he broke to tears, and I visited him on my own time when he was moved to hospice. He was so moved by everything I did, but like so many times before, it felt inadequate.I'm finding that I could write several more (twenty seven years of) sad stories. I hope you don't mind that there wasn't removal of clothing in most. In the long career of a health professional, with so much removal of clothing, there is worlds more that stays in the memory. We are all naked beneath our clothing, but there is so much more to humanity.Edit: Thank you for all the upvotes and kind words. I wish everyone was compassionate, including the government, neighbors, people who ignore others who need help….Most health care workers are compassionate, but unfortunately the great majority are far too overworked. Extra time spent, when I thought there was no other humane way, was often met with criticism from bosses and others who thought I should be faster or accrue less overtime. It's not easy to do the right thing. It's hard to disappoint the boss and coworkers who you have to work with every day.It's only getting worse with the ever increasing shortage of all health care workers. This has to do with the many choices available to young people, as well as an aging population. Ironically, we can thank increasingly better healthcare for the aging population.

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