11.8 Chapter Assignment
Advanced Directive & Planning for Illness & Death Assignment
This chapter focused on the importance of advanced planning for illness and death. You have 2 options for this chapter’s assignment. Option 1 involves: (A) completing your Power of Attorney for Personal Care and Advance Care Directive via a downloadable and fillable PDF document; AND (B) writing a short reflection piece. Option 2 involves writing a reflection paper. Regardless of which option is chosen for the assignment, it is important to complete all chapter materials (chapter content, including all embedded links to readings and videos, and the required course materials) prior to starting the assignment. Both options require the citing of relevant course material (from current and previous chapters) throughout your assignment to support your points, credit sources of concepts/ideas, and demonstrate completion of assigned course materials.
Options for Chapter #11 Assignment
Option 1
After downloading the Advance Care Directive for Ontario document containing the necessary forms (see A below), this assignment option requires you to do four things: (1) complete your Advanced Care Directive/Advanced Care Plan (ACP), including signature; (2) appoint your Substitute Decision-Maker(s) (SDM) via the creation of a Power of Attorney for Personal Care (APC) (including signatures); (3) write a 500-600 word reflection piece based on your experience of completing the document; and (4) submit 2 properly labelled PDF documents: your completed and signed Advanced Care Directive document (which includes the appointment of your SDM/APC) AND your reflection piece.
Students may choose to submit 2 properly labelled PDF versions of their completed ACP, one of which is marked up with notes and citations. Anyone choosing this option will be submitting 3 PDF documents: Completed and signed ACP and APC; completed ACP and APC marked up with notes and citations; and a reflection piece (as per 3 above).
Steps to Completing Option 1 Assignment
- Click on the following link to download a PDF of the Advance Care Directive for Ontario to your computer Power of Attorney for Personal Care and Advance Care Directive.
- Read the downloaded document in its entirety so you understand what it is you are completing. It is also extremely important to read the document “Advance care planning kit” assigned earlier in this chapter.
- Fill out Section C of the document appointing your Power of Attorney for Personal Care (APC).
- Fill out Section D of the document detailing your Advance Care Directives (ACP). It is important to carefully read and following the directions in the document. For this assignment, students choosing Option #1 are required to complete sections B, C, D and E and to read the remaining sections of the document, paying particular attention to sections A and H. As noted above, it is also essential to complete the “Advance care planning kit” reading assigned earlier in the chapter. Be s