GeriPal

APRIL 4, 2024

The Cruzan ruling led to a flood of interest in Advance Directives, and eventually to the Patient Self Determination Act, which mandates provision of information about advanced directives to all hospitalized patients. Other states set lower bars, including oral assignment of surrogate decision-makers. AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s) ™.

Family 112

Family Families Patient-Centered IT 112

GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

We all, when bombarded with information have to take certain elements of a decision and focus on those; and in the ICU, you can imagine, we’re bombarded with information a lot. Kate: Yeah, some of the thoughts I’ve had in thinking about this: we did not require communication, training and education of the clinicians.

Consulting 115

Consulting Patient-Centered IT Patients 115

GeriPal

MARCH 10, 2022

Ruth: Decision-making processes, we saw the lower nursing homes tended to have a clear process for advanced care planning and for decision making to include families in an informed decision. ” Ruth: Yes, you could say that if somebody had all the information they needed and chose a form of treatment, then yes, that’s a difference.

Nurse Practitioner 60

Nurse Practitioner Hospital Family Families 60