An article by Izumi et al. (2019) in the current issue describes the effect of a brief educational intervention for nurses to increase confidence in their knowledge of advance care planning (ACP). The description of this project offers a useful exemplar for those wishing to implement ACP...

Purpose/Objectives: To determine the feasibility and acceptability of a dignity therapy/life plan intervention in the outpatient oncology setting. Research Approach: Pilot descriptive study. Setting: Outpatient clinic in a tertiary oncology center. Participants: 18 patients within 12 months after...

Purpose/Objectives: To describe nurse–caregiver communication on the day of patient death. Design: A descriptive secondary analysis of 44 audio-recorded home hospice nursing visits on day of death. Setting: Nine hospices in Utah, Oregon, and Massachusetts. Sample: 42 caregiver–patient dyads, 27...

Background: Many patients with incurable cancer do not accurately understand their prognosis, which can lead to aggressive and, often, futile treatment. Improved prognostic awareness can help patients to appropriately de-escalate aggressive treatment sooner in an illness trajectory. Objectives: The...