Woman dies as nurse refuses to perform CPR

[pipoman]

21. I work in a skilled nursing facility

I believe there are more residents who would be disappointed if they were resuscitated. My sister died last year at 50 of pancreatic cancer. Several months before her death she embraced the idea of death as do most terminally ill people at some point. People who are receiving "skilled nursing care" in a "skilled nursing facility" (these are very specific classifications with very detailed descriptions in insurance policies and defined by medicare) usually being treated for memory care, parkinson's, and a myriad of other ailments...all of them debilitating to the point of requiring around the clock nursing care. These people for the most part know they are going to die there and are good with the idea of death. They, like everyone else wish when their time comes they close their eyes and just not wake up. There are things worse than death and these people see them every day. A policy for a facility for no CPR may be the most humane policy..further each resident would most likely have to agree with this policy upon entering.