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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. Palliative care could prevent many ED visits. were made by patients with cancer.

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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. In all my years of nursing, this was about as optimal an advance care planning encounter as possible. Marian Grant, palliative care NP. I first saw the patient the next morning.

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