Vermont Ethics Network

Taking Steps
Planning for Critical Health Care Decisions

Taking Steps,( 9th printing, 2005) a publication of the Vermont Ethics Network, is a booklet about making choices for your medical care in the age of modern technology. It discusses:

  • your rights as a patient;
  • common treatment in critical and end-of-life care;
  • how you can use legal documents called "advance directives" to leave instructions for your care if you become unable to speak for yourself

Additionally it includes:

  • Checklist for Advance Directive
  • Advance Directive Form
  • Values Questionnaire Worksheet
  • Medical Situations and Their Treatments Worksheet
  • Wallet cards for Organ Donation and Durable Power of Attorney

 
Other Publications

Vermont Voices on Care of the Dying, Oct. 1977 is available at no charge

  
     

1 Copy - $3.00

10 copies - $25 + s/h
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40 copies - $100 + s/h

Pre-boxed lots of 120 booklets are $2.00 each plus $10.00 via UPS per box.

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Vermont Ethics Network
64 Main Street, Room 25
Montpelier, VT 05602

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1 (802) 828-2909

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