The Prohibition Instruction template is designed to be used within the Advance Directives Section. However, this information also may be relevant within an Interventions Section or a Plan of Treatment Section. It is an adaptation of the Instruction V2 template. It follows the structure of an instruction template, but modifies the semantics in several ways. First, the code element comes from a value set containing concepts that are types of care instructions about activities that a patient, or a patient's healthcare agent or other type of surrogate decision-maker (when the patient is unable to communicate) does not want care providers to perform. Second, the author of this template is the person who made the decision documented in the Prohibition Instruction. The Prohibition Instruction template and Obligation Instruction template are designed as a "matched pair" to permit either prohibitions or obligations to be clearly expressed in an unambiguous way. The use of negation is explicitly expressed, and the semantic design of the recommended value sets takes into consideration the logical meaning of an obligation versus a prohibition. . The Prohibition Instruction template explicitly requires the use of negationInd=”true”. It always expresses activities that care providers have been instructed not to perform. Coded concepts used in this template express activities in the positive and add sematics for negation through the structural negationInd attribute. For decisions that establish prohibition instructions, refer to the Prohibition Instruction template. For decisions that establish prohibition instructions, refer to the Prohibition Instruction.