title: Living wills and health care proxies. Nurse practice implications.
abstract: Schwarz discusses the uses and limitations of advance written directives and health care proxies as means to patient self-determination in health care decision making, as well as implications for nursing practice.
authors.forename: J K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Schwarz
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D003657:Decision Making; D006801:Humans; D007884:Legislation, Nursing; D009732:Nursing Care / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States