Setting Trends in the Preoperative Care Setting: Advance Care Planning (SA510A)

Patient advocacy and advance care planning in the acute hospital setting.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explain the role of patient advocacy in the Advance Care Planning (ACP-ing) process. Nurses rate prolonging the dying process with inappropriate measures as their most disturbing ethical issue and protecting patients' rights to be of great concern (Johnston et al 2002). Paradoxically ethical codes assume nurses have the autonomy to uphold patients' health-...

Advance care planning in primary care.

Resuscitation in the family planning and reproductive health care setting.

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Primary Care Setting

Background: Numerous studies indicate that Papanicolaou smears contain better cellular material when the technique for collecting the sample employs the Zelsmyn Cytobrush TIl. Few studies, however, have examined its ability to increase the percentage of abnormal Papanicolaou smear results in actual clinical practice. Methods: This study looked at 7999 Papanicolaou smears done by 46 primary care...

Advance care planning in the elderly.

Key components of advance care planning (ACP) for the elderly include choosing a surrogate decision maker, identifying personal values, communicating with surrogates and clinicians, documenting wishes in advance directives, and translating values and preferences for future medical care into medical orders. ACP often involves multiple brief discussions over time. This article outlines common ben...