Medical Aid and Dying and FICA Exam 2

National Hospice and palliative care organization's Statement on

Medical Aid and Dying

Medical Aid and Dying: Position

- Seeks to provide assistance to member organizations in communities where medical aid in dying (MAID) is an option

- HPCO opposes MAID as a societal option to alleviate suffering

Medical Aid and Dying: Rationale

- Known as physician assisted suicide (PAS), physician aid in dying (PAD), legally accelerated death (LAD), and other terms

- Palliative care "intends to neither hasten nor postpone death

- MAID is not a palliative intervention

Medical Aid and Dying: Commitment of Support

- As of 2021 they are not legally going to accelerate death

- NHPCO earnestly supports the timely provision of palliative and hospice care to all patients, including those choosing MAID

Medical Aid and Dying

- It is a position statement in which they state that palliative care and hospice is chosen so people are not hastening or accelerating death

- Looking at the position statement that palliative care is still taking and holding onto; it is trying to take the MAID out and push people to choose palliative or hospice

FICA

It is a Spiritual Assessment

F: Faith or Beliefs

I: Importance and Influence of beliefs

C: Community

A: Address Care Issues

F: Faith or Beliefs

- What is your faith or belief?

- Do you consider yourself spiritual or religious?

- What things do you believe in that give meaning to your life

I: Importance and Influence of beliefs

- Is your faith or belief important in your life

- What influences does your faith or belief have on how you take care of yourself?

- How have your beliefs influenced your behavior during this illness?

C: Community

- Are you part of a spiritual or religious community?

- Does the community provide support for you? How?

- Is there a person or group of people you really love or who are really important to you?

A: Address Care Issues

- How would you like me to address these issues while caring for you?

- How would you like me to address these issues while caring for you?

- Would you like to talk to someone about these matters?

- Would you like us to arrange for a member of your faith community to come and see you?

General recommendations when taking a spiritual history

Consider spirituality as a potentially important component of every patient's physical well-being and mental health (Looking at the patient as a whole)