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

Poonam Goswami
Michael Mistric
Fedricker Diane Barber
CJON 2020, 24(1), 81-87 DOI: 10.1188/20.CJON.81-87
Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is an ongoing process of communication involving patients, family members, and caregivers on one side and healthcare providers on the other to establish values, goals, and preferences for future care, along with discussions concerning end-of-life care options...
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Patient Perceptions of Survivorship Care Plans: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation

Erin Peregrine Antalis
Rylee Doucette
Gielle Kuhn
Laurence H. Baker
Denise Reinke
ONF 2019, 46(4), 493-502 DOI: 10.1188/19.ONF.493-502
Purpose: To understand the perceptions of patients with cancer regarding the role and purpose of a survivorship care plan (SCP) to inform content and delivery opportunities. Participants & Setting: A mixed-methods evaluation was conducted among patients at a survivorship clinic for high-risk...
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Enhancing Advance Care Planning Conversations by Nurses in a Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit

Shigeko (Seiko) Izumi
Malinda Burt
Jennifer Smith
Keren McCord
Erik K. Fromme
ONF 2019, 46(3), 288-297 DOI: 10.1188/19.ONF.288-297
Objectives: To describe the impact of advance care planning (ACP) education on nurses’ confidence in ACP knowledge and practice and to identify barriers to facilitate ACP conversation in a bone marrow transplantation unit. Sample & Setting: 60 nurses working in the bone marrow transplant unit...
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Implementing Advance Care Planning: Barriers and Facilitators

Heather Coats
Yuki Asakura
Ellyn E. Matthews
ONF 2019, 46(3), 271-274 DOI: 10.1188/19.ONF.271-274
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...
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Feasibility and Acceptability of a Dignity Therapy/Life Plan Intervention for Patients With Advanced Cancer

Ann Marie Dose
Joleen M. Hubbard
Aaron S. Mansfield
Pamela J. McCabe
Catherine A. Krecke
Jeff A. Sloan
ONF 2017, 44(5), E194-E202 DOI: 10.1188/17.ONF.E194-E202
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...
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