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

AJN Off the Charts

I made a copy of it and gave it to the ICU social worker to scan for the patient’s electronic chart. In all my years of nursing, this was about as optimal an advance care planning encounter as possible. Because it was the ICU, there were people to witness the form, plus a social worker to make sure it was scanned into the EMR.