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The Challenges of Advance Care Planning for Acute Care Registered Nurses.
Canadian Journal of Nursing Research 2024 April 5
STUDY BACKGROUND: The practice of acute care nurses is shaped by organizational factors such as lack of privacy, heavy workloads, unclear roles, lack of time, and lack of specific policies and procedures. We know little about the social and organizational structures and processes that influence nurses' uptake of valuable patient-centered discussions like advance care planning (ACP). ACP is beneficial for patients, their substitute decision makers, and healthcare providers.
PURPOSE: To describe the operational, organizational, and societal influences shaping nurses' ACP work in acute care settings.
METHODS: This ethnographic study purposively sampled 14 registered nurses and 9 administrators who worked in two acute care hospitals in Northeastern Ontario. Methods consisted of 23 open-ended, semi-structured interviews, 20 hours of observational fieldwork, and a collection of publicly available organizational documents. Data were inductively analyzed using an iterative constant comparative approach.
RESULTS: Nurses were challenged to meet multiple competing demands, leaving them to scramble to manage complex and critically ill acute care patients while also fulfilling organizational tasks aligned with funding metrics, accreditation, and strategic planning priorities. Such factors limited nurses' capacity to engage their patients in ACP.
CONCLUSIONS: Acute care settings that align patient values and medical treatment need to foster ACP practices by revising organizational policies and processes to support this outcome, analyzing the tasks of healthcare providers to determine who might best address it, and budgeting how to support it with additional resources.
PURPOSE: To describe the operational, organizational, and societal influences shaping nurses' ACP work in acute care settings.
METHODS: This ethnographic study purposively sampled 14 registered nurses and 9 administrators who worked in two acute care hospitals in Northeastern Ontario. Methods consisted of 23 open-ended, semi-structured interviews, 20 hours of observational fieldwork, and a collection of publicly available organizational documents. Data were inductively analyzed using an iterative constant comparative approach.
RESULTS: Nurses were challenged to meet multiple competing demands, leaving them to scramble to manage complex and critically ill acute care patients while also fulfilling organizational tasks aligned with funding metrics, accreditation, and strategic planning priorities. Such factors limited nurses' capacity to engage their patients in ACP.
CONCLUSIONS: Acute care settings that align patient values and medical treatment need to foster ACP practices by revising organizational policies and processes to support this outcome, analyzing the tasks of healthcare providers to determine who might best address it, and budgeting how to support it with additional resources.
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