Tools and resources
There are many tools available to support advance care planning
They can support you to:
• identify people who would benefit
• prepare yourself to talk to people and their whānau (do your own advance care plan, explore your biases, ensure you have the skills and confidence, understand the legal framework for medical decision-making and read the person’s notes and talk to other members of the person’s health care team)
• prepare people and their whānau for the conversations
• talk to people and their whānau
• support the person and their whānau to capture the key information in their advance care plan
• document conversations and plans in the clinical record including documenting shared goals of care for people in hospital, aged residential or long-term care
• promote advance care planning in your community, your practice or clinical area and in your team or organisation.
There are many tools and resources available to help you promote advance care planning and shared goals of care for different groups
People and their whānau
• Provide resources such as the advance care plan and guide.
• Encourage people to talk with their whānau while they are well.
• Offer to answer any questions.
• Let patients know you would like to talk about it.
Teams and organisations
• Present to your team or organisation.
• Share stories and outcomes.
In the community
• Make yourself available for community talks.
• Encourage people in your communities to share their own stories with others.
Advance care planning
Advance care planning 101 presentation and guidelines for use:
The presentation is designed to be delivered to health care staff who don’t have a great deal of knowledge about advance care planning. It can, and should, be adapted for the audience you are presenting to. If all the content is presented as it is, it will take approximately an hour. There are also guidelines about how to deliver the presentation. See documents below:
Advance care planning 101 presentation | Guidelines for using the advance care planning 101 presentationResource: Te Whatu Ora specific contacts and process for recording advance care plans
Advance care planning: A guide for the New Zealand health care
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Advance care planning implementation
Training and trainer support
Shared goals of care
Shared goals of care principles for health service providers
Resource: Shared goals of care preparation and implementation guide
Fact sheet: shared goals of care conversations (for consumers)
Factsheet: capabilities for recognising and responding to acute deterioration
Clinical governance recommendations
Note: A clinical governance committee is needed to provide oversight and expert advice about the safety, effectiveness, and ongoing improvement of the recognition and response system.
This paper is intended for project teams responsible for implementing and improving recognition and response systems in New Zealand hospitals. It briefly outlines recommendations for ongoing clinical governance of recognition and response systems.
Stakeholder assessment template
Note: This template forms apart of the patient deterioration preparation and implementation guide. It can be used to document the level influence and interest your stakeholders have in the success of the project, then identify how you will engage with them
Video: Videos from the workshop: exploring shared goals of care in acute hospital settings
Serious illness conversations
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