Given their day-to-day, intimate interaction with residents, certified nursing assistants (CNAs) are uniquely positioned to contribute to care planning and interdisciplinary care team (IDT) meetings, ...

A mental health trust in North West England is seeking to boost the role of its nurses in enabling patients to make advance care plans. A total of 40 matrons and nurse specialists from Mersey Care NHS ...

Proper training in a day care setting improves the competency of the staff and creates a standardized knowledge base for all employees. Effective training sessions incorporate specific objectives and ...

Adults with serious illness in the US were significantly more likely than those without to think about their advance care plans, a new study has found. Those concerned about whether their surrogates ...

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Makayla K. Palmer ([email protected]) is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mireille Jacobson is an associate professor ...