Advance Care Planning: Advanced Practice Provider-Initiated Discussions and Their Effects on Patient-Centered End-of-Life Care.

This study involved retrospective data collection of 20 inpatients and 20 outpatients without a scanned advance directive in the electronic health record at the time of admission or clinic visit, as well as an ACP intervention by an APP.
FINDINGS: APPs can initiate ACP discussions with patients with cancer, which may assist in their understanding of ACP, resulting in completion of the advance directive documents and a change in their code (resuscitation) status.
PMID: 31961841 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing - January 23, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Goswami P, Mistric M, Diane Barber F Tags: Clin J Oncol Nurs Source Type: research