P-87 The importance of educating healthcare workers (HWC) on advance care planning (ACP) in a south-east asian (SEA) acute hospital setting: The national heart centre singapore (NHCS) experience
Abstract:BackgroundNHCS Heart Failure team and Medical Social Workers (MSW) spearheaded the implementation of ACP in August 2012. The programme now incorporates a component of intra-institution education of HCWs, specifically with cardiac nurses and physicians.AimTo provide on-going education and address misconceptions of ACP amongst HCWs in a SEA acute hospital setting, in view that discussion of patients’ crucial end-of-life treatment preferences is an avoided topic amongst HCWs in their daily frontline patient inter… Show more
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