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A Passion for Shared Decision Making Unites Nurses Living 4,000 Miles Apart
Any outsider listening to the phone conversation that occurred this summer between Kelly Taylor, director of quality improvement at Mercy Clinics, Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa and Jane Price, the lead nurse for patient experience at Aneurin Bevan Health Board in Gwent, Wales, would have though they were listening to old friends exchanging stories about a shared history of palliative care nursing. Although they had never met in person, this first conversation between the two was a seamless hour long exchange of personal anecdotes, lessons learned from their work, and hope for the future of health care for those suffering from terminal disease. Continue reading
Author Spotlight: Ira Byock, MD
“We need to move past our hesitation in talking about dying and accept the fact that we are not immortal,” says Dr. Ira Byock, author of The Best Care Possible and director of palliative medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. “Once we accept that fact, we can focus on how to provide the best care possible for those who are incurable.”
For more than 30 years, Ira has worked with patients and their families to make difficult decisions about care. “The fundamental nature of illness is personal,” says Ira. The palliative care approach lends itself well to improving the quality of life and personal experience of serious illness, including the dying process. Continue reading
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Featured Shared Decision Making Publications
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View all results of this resource type.Development and Evaluation of an Intervention to Engage Inter-Professional Health Care Teams, Patients and Families in Shared Decision Making about the Level of Care in the Intensive Care Unit
The research aims to develop and evaluate an intervention to engage interprofessional health care teams, patients and families in shared decision making about the level of care in the Intensive Care Unit. Continue reading
Efficacy of a Training Intervention on the Quality of Case Managers Nurses Decision Support for Patients Deciding about the Place of Care at the End-of-Life: A Randomized Control Study & Efficacy of an Evidence Informed, Theory-based Training Intervention on the Quality of Clinicians' Decision Support for Patients Deciding about Place of End-of-Life Care: A Randomized Control Trial
To evaluate the efficacy of a theory driven, framework-based, multifaceted training intervention designed to enhance the quality of nurses decision support skills regarding end-of-life place of care for adults with terminal cancer. This study aims to determine whether the quality of nurses decision support can be improved with a theory-based skills-building intervention. Continue reading
