Thirdly, people in the nursing practice should be aware that many of the Jehovah’s Witnesses carry an advance medical directive. An advance medical directive is a form of documentation that contains some earlier agreed upon terms (Gohel, Bulbulia, Slim, Poskitt & Whyman, 2005). The directives are crucial because they help legal and medical personnel to weigh some of the choices the Jehovah’s Witnesses make and why they are willing to take those risks in as far as medical treatment is concerned. The JWs advance directive prohibits them from blood transfusion. In many cases, these individuals have well executed health care advance directive that expressly shows their medical preferences that they are entitled to. Therefore, physicians should
