Preparing the Assignment

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Family nurse practitioners often care for older adults as they experience changes in functional health. Assessments may reveal that clients are unsafe in their current environment or that they may require additional assistance to remain at home. Carefully read the questions below and address each in your initial post.

1. Application of Course Knowledge: Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail. 
   1. Discuss the laws in your state related to the nurse practitioner’s (NP) role and responsibility in creating and signing advanced directives (ADs). Indicate if the NP can independently complete AD documents or a physician is required to sign or cosign the documents.
   2. Consider clients you’ve encountered in practicum (or in your practice as a registered nurse). Identify at least ONE client who may have benefited from a referral to hospice or palliative care. Indicate why this client would have benefited from these services. Describe how as an NP you might approach the conversation with the client.
   3. Discuss at least TWO recommendations you have for improving palliative and hospice care access to vulnerable and underserved populations in your community.

Solution:

Title 19a – Public Health and Well-Being, Chapter 368w of the 2022 Connecticut General Statutes sets forth the requirements for creating an advance directive, including a living will and a health care proxy. It also provides for the transfer of a patient if the attending physician or healthcare provider is unwilling to comply with the patient’s wishes.This chapter is important because it protects the rights of individuals to make their own decisions about their medical care. It also ensures that healthcare providers will respect the wishes of their patients, even if those wishes are not to continue life-sustaining treatment.In the event that a person loses the ability to express their desire or medical treatment, an advance directive may be used to carry them out. There are three distinct kinds in Connecticut, a living will, a health care proxy and aDo-not-resuscitate (DNR) order… to purchase full solution click  below