Is Anointing of the Sick after Holy Orders?

Anointing of the sick can be admininstered to any person, lay or clergy, and essentially at any time but usually when the person is in a serious illness. Anointing of the sick must be administered by a clergy member, defined as one who has received the Holy Orders sacrament. This must be done by someone who is a priest and not a deacon since it involves also the sacrament of Reconciliation. Anointing of the sick is not a required sacrament in order to be worthy of Christ's saving grace, however it certainly does help by putting the sick individual back in a state of grace prior to death.