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How to fill out the New Mexico Advance Directive - Compassion & Choices online
Filling out the New Mexico Advance Directive is an important step in planning for your healthcare decisions. This guide provides a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to completing the form online, ensuring that your wishes are clearly articulated and legally recognized.
Follow the steps to effectively complete the form.
- Click ‘Get Form’ button to obtain the New Mexico Advance Directive and open it in your online document editor.
- Begin by filling out Part I: Power of Attorney for Healthcare. In this section, designate your primary agent by providing their name, address, and phone numbers. Include alternative agents, if needed, in the order of preference.
- Next, indicate your agent’s authority. Review the options regarding the authority of your agent to make healthcare decisions. If you have specific instructions regarding artificial nutrition or hydration, note them accordingly.
- Specify when your agent’s authority becomes effective. Choose whether their authority takes effect immediately or only when you are unable to make your own healthcare decisions.
- In Part II: Instructions for Healthcare, consider whether to fill out your preferences regarding end-of-life decisions. You can choose one of the provided options regarding life-sustaining treatments.
- Also, specify your wishes about artificial nutrition and hydration under the same circumstances. Indicate whether you wish for these treatments to be provided or withheld.
- Provide any additional instructions under the 'Other Wishes' section. You are encouraged to express any specific directives you would like your healthcare team to know.
- In Part III: Primary Physician, designate your primary physician by entering their information to ensure they are informed of your wishes.
- Finally, review the completed form for accuracy. Proceed to sign and date the document. Although witnesses are not required, consider having two people sign as witnesses for added validity.
- Once completed, you can save any changes made, download the document, print it for distribution, or share it with your healthcare providers and agents.
Begin filling out your New Mexico Advance Directive online today to ensure your healthcare preferences are respected.
Advance directives generally fall into three categories: living will, power of attorney and health care proxy. LIVING WILL: This is a written document that specifies what types of medical treatment are desired. A living will can be very specific or very general.
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