The challenges of advance care planning for acute care registered nurses

The challenges of advance care planning for acute care registered nurses
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research, by Lori L Rietze, Kelli I Stajduhar, Mary Ellen Purkis, Denise Cloutier; 4/24
Nurses were challenged to meet multiple competing demands, leaving them to scramble to manage complex and critically ill acute care patients while also fulfilling organizational tasks aligned with funding metrics, accreditation, and strategic planning priorities. Such factors limited nurses' capacity to engage their patients in ACP. ... Acute care settings that align patient values and medical treatment need to foster ACP practices by revising organizational policies and processes to support this outcome, analyzing the tasks of healthcare providers to determine who might best address it, and budgeting how to support it with additional resources.