Discuss the significance of the issue for nursing
Advanced Directives are significant to nursing as part of the whole healthcare system. Those include providing control to individuals, reducing conflicts in the healthcare setting and decreasing healthcare cost. It was reported by Health Canada (2008) that the reason why advanced care planning has caught the attention of the healthcare system is that the Canadian population is aging and more of chronic illnesses can be seen, which causes a burden on the system. Those who live longer with the chronic illnesses may have preferences of what they want before dying and what way they want it. They also demand control on what they don’t want even if they cannot communicate their wishes to their caregivers. Advanced care planning also Health Canada added that Advance care planning also relates to other priorities in the healthcare system such as quality improvement and patient safety and chronic diseases management. …show more content…
Advanced directives also play an important role in reducing any sort of conflict that can arise between the nurses, their patients, significant others, substitute decision makers and the patient’s families for the patient had already made their decision when their mental capacity and ability to communicate was intact. (Woytkiw, 2010)
A third significance of advanced directives is that it has been found to reduce the burden in the healthcare system through decreasing cost of treatment and hospitalization and thus bed vacancies can be achieved in critical areas where new patients may require critical care. (Brinkman-Stoppelenburg, Rietjens & Van Der Heide, A. , 2014).
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Advanced Directives are significant to nursing as part of the whole healthcare system. Those include providing control to individuals, reducing conflicts in the healthcare setting and decreasing healthcare cost. It was reported by Health Canada (2008) that the reason why advanced care planning has caught the attention of the healthcare system is that the Canadian population is aging and more of chronic illnesses can be seen, which causes a burden on the system. Those who live longer with the chronic illnesses may have preferences of what they want before dying and what way they want it. They also demand control on what they don’t want even if they cannot communicate their wishes to their caregivers. Advanced care planning also Health Canada added that Advance care planning also relates to other priorities in the healthcare system such as quality improvement and patient safety and chronic diseases management. …show more content…
Advanced directives also play an important role in reducing any sort of conflict that can arise between the nurses, their patients, significant others, substitute decision makers and the patient’s families for the patient had already made their decision when their mental capacity and ability to communicate was intact. (Woytkiw, 2010)
A third significance of advanced directives is that it has been found to reduce the burden in the healthcare system through decreasing cost of treatment and hospitalization and thus bed vacancies can be achieved in critical areas where new patients may require critical care. (Brinkman-Stoppelenburg, Rietjens & Van Der Heide, A. , 2014).
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