Advance Care Planning

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For many Americans, advance care planning is not a conversation that one brings up until they are faced with advanced illness. The importance of family involvement and the solutions to achieving meaningful, informed provider/family conversation was discussed at the American Academy of Nursing's Raise the Voice Critical Conversation "Best Practices in Advanced Care Planning and Decision Making: Models that Work." The catalyst for the Critical Conversation was a policy brief developed by an Academy Task Force in 2011 titled "Advance Care Planning as an Urgent Public Health Concern" identifying four policy recommendations for ensuring that conversations about informed preferences are on going and the norm.

Policy & News:

Policy Brief (May, 2015): Reconsideration of Do Not Resuscitate Orders in the Surgical/Procedural Setting
Policy Brief (2013): Advance Care Planning as an Urgent Public Health Concern
Press Release (April 19, 2013): American Academy of Nursing Urges Advance Care Planning
Press Release (April 24, 2013): Pediatric Palliative Care: Comforting Children and Families
Op-Ed (January 7, 2011): New York Times, Virginia Tilden
Critical Conversation Materials: Best Practices in Advanced Care Planning and Decision Making
Press Release (October 3, 2010): Raise the Voice to host a Critical Conversation: Best Practices in Advanced Care Planning and Decision Making
Press Release (July 6, 2010): Academy Endorses Advance Care Planning as an Urgent Public Health Issue
Policy Brief (2010): Advance Care Planning as an Urgent Public Health Concern

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