Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment for nursing home residents with dementia

Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 606-614

  Kim, Hyejin ^a   Ersek, Mary ^a,b   Bradway, Christine ^a   Hickman, Susan E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dementia; Nurse practitioners; Nursing homes; Palliative care; Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatments; Surrogates

Indexed keywords

DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LIVING WILL; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PRACTITIONER; NURSING; NURSING HOME; RESUSCITATION;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSING HOMES; RESUSCITATION ORDERS;

EID: 84946478930     PISSN: 23276886     EISSN: 23276924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2327-6924.12258     Document Type: Article

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