Qualifications of MAiD
18 years of age
How old must an individual be to qualify for MAiD?
A decision that is informed, consistent with the decision maker’s values, and behaviorally implemented.
What is informed choice?
1. Statement of nursing values and responsibilities
2. A generic pathway for NPs providing MAID and nurses aiding in MAID
3. Case Studies
What are the three main sections of the National Nursing Framework on MAiD?
Name one qualification an independent witness must have.
know or believe that they are a beneficiary under the patient’s will
know or believe that they are a recipient, in any other way, of a financial or other material benefit resulting from the patient’s death
be an owner or operator of a healthcare facility where the patient is being treated, or any facility in which the patient resides.”
Individuals requesting MAiD must have a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability, excluding mental illness.
True
The health care provider’s right to refuse participation in the provision of medical assistance in dying.
What is Conscientious Objection?
Providing safe, compassionate, competent and ethical care
Promoting health and well-being
Promoting and respecting informed decision-making
Preserving dignity
Maintaining privacy and confidentiality
Promoting justice
Being accountable
What is the Statement of Nursing Values and Responsibilities?
Name two roles of the RN during MAiD process
- independent witness
- IV insertion
- Comfort measures
Individuals who are requesting MAiD do not have to be in an advanced state of irreversible decline in capability.
Measures taken to ensure the lawful provision of medical assistance in dying.
Step 1: Determining eligibility for MAID
Step 2: Ensuring safeguards are met
Step 3: Providing and Aiding MAiD
Step 4: Filing information and reporting requirements
What is the Pathway for NPs Providing MAiD and Nurses Aiding in MAiD
Effective in March 17, 2021
When did bill c-17 come into effect?
Natural death does not have to be foreseeable.
True
Period of time between approval of MAiD request and administration of MAiD.
March 17, 2024
When will mental health be reconsidered an eligibility for the administration of MAiD?
Individuals who are requesting MAiD must have enduring and intolerable physical or psychological suffering that cannot be alleviated under conditions the healthcare team considers acceptable.
False
An individual who does not have any interest in the results of the case and is not even closely related o the party.
What is an independent witness?
Specifically removed the need for a “reasonably foreseeable natural death” and excluded when mental illness is the only mental condition.
What is bill c-7?