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Free Oklahoma Medical Power of Attorney Form

An Oklahoma medical power of attorney names a health care agent under the state's Health Care Agent Act. Our customizable template explains how it fits with the separate advance directive that covers life support.

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What Is a Medical Power of Attorney in Oklahoma?

Oklahoma’s Health Care Agent Act, 63 O.S. § 3111.1 and following, lets a person with capacity sign a power of attorney for health care. The agent can make most health care decisions you could make yourself, with one big exception covered below.

Oklahoma Rules for a Health Care Power of Attorney

Section 3111.3 sets the core rules, as amended in 2023.

Written and Signed

Your Oklahoma medical power of attorney must be in writing and signed by you. It stays in effect after you lose capacity.

Witnesses or a Notary

The original 2022 law required two witnesses who are at least 18 and are not legatees, devisees, or heirs at law. A 2023 amendment added the option to sign in front of a notary public instead.

Who Decides When It Starts

Unless your document says otherwise, your attending physician determines whether you lack capacity.

Facility Staff Limits

Unless related to you by blood, marriage, or adoption, an owner, operator, or employee of a facility caring for you cannot be your agent.

Can an Oklahoma Agent Decide About Life Support?

No, not through this document alone. Under § 3111.3, a health care power of attorney cannot authorize withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, nutrition, or hydration. Those decisions can only be authorized under the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act.

The power of attorney can, however, let your agent sign a do-not-resuscitate consent under Oklahoma’s DNR Act. For life-support decisions, you also need an advance directive naming a health care proxy. That directive is signed before two witnesses who are 18 or older and not your legatees, devisees, or heirs.

Tube Feeding Needs Your Own Words

If you use a non-statutory advance directive in Oklahoma, it does not authorize withholding artificially administered nutrition or hydration unless it says so specifically. Use your own words or a separate section for that choice.

How to Sign Your Oklahoma Medical Power of Attorney

Complete your Oklahoma medical power of attorney form this way:

  1. Name your health care agent and an alternate.
  2. Add individual instructions and any limits on authority.
  3. Decide whether your agent may sign a DNR consent.
  4. Sign before a notary, or before two adult witnesses who will not inherit from you.
  5. If you want someone to decide about life support, complete a separate advance directive.
  6. Give copies of both documents to your agent and doctors.

What to Include in Your Oklahoma Form

A complete Oklahoma plan often uses two documents:

  • A power of attorney for health care for everyday medical decisions, with any DNR authority
  • An advance directive with a health care proxy for life-sustaining treatment, nutrition, and hydration

Your agent follows your instructions and known wishes first, then your best interest in light of your personal values. No judge has to approve the choices your Oklahoma medical power of attorney lets your agent make.