This customizable document, Do Not Resuscitate/Do Not Intubate, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Hospice Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

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Here is some sample content from Do Not Resuscitate/Do Not Intubate:

	PURPOSE: To assure Hospice personnel receives communication regarding the patient's do not resuscitate/do not intubate DNR/DNI status. POLICY: If there is cardiac or pulmonary arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitative measures are promptly initiated unless the physician in charge has written a DNR/DNI order and document in the patient's medical record. PROCEDURE: The attending physician makes a DNR and/or DNI decision in consultation with the patient and/or other legally responsible person when, in the judgment of the physician, the patient suffers from an incurable terminal illness, death is...
Second excerpt:
	...this notification in the medical record. The nurse will notify the Home Health Aide: If the patient is new to Home Health Aide Service, Do Not Resuscitate DNR will be written on the Aide's Assignment Sheet. If the patient has had ongoing Home Health Aide Service, Hospice personnel will create a new assignment sheet with DNR written on it. When Home Health Aides receive revised assignments via telephone, they will be informed that patients have a DNR status. Hospice clearly identifies the...