Learning Objectives
In this section, the student will:
- Investigate the need for advance care planning
- Compare and contrast living wills, DNR, and POLST
- Examine cultural and religious issues in advanced care planning
- Discuss registration and storage of advanced directive forms
Resources
- Advance Care Planning; from National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
- Advance Care Planning; from National Institute on Aging
- End of Life Washington; from End of Life Washington
- End of Life Resources; from Washington State Medical Association
- Reflections on Cultural Differences and Advance Directives; from Bioethics Forum 13 (2) Summer 1997.