Description:
This program provides information regarding advance care planning that may lessen the ethical dilemmas that patients and families often face. The quality of patient care may be enhanced by gaining insight into the responsibility of making difficult decisions during difficult times and alleviate feelings of isolation by understanding the ethical context of practice.

Objectives:

• Participant will explain the Patient Self-Determination Act
• Participant will name 2 types of advanced directives
• Participant will identify 2 issues regarding decision making and communication
• Participant will compose a list (real or imagined) of directives utilizing an appropriate advanced directive tool
  

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