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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

APRIL 7, 2023

There have been a couple of recent studies that confirm what I have observed as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center: that there’s still a tendency to pursue very aggressive care with older people with cancer. Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. Sound familiar?

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In the Nick of Time: Advance Care Planning in the ICU

AJN Off the Charts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

I also work as a palliative care nurse practitioner (NP) in an academic medical center where I see the real-life aspects of advance care planning. I then wrote a note and texted the nurse practitioner in the cancer center to let her know the patient now had an advance directive, thanks to her earlier effort.

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