Effectiveness of a competency-based coordinator of advance care planning competency enhancement program: a mixed method.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical Ethics Support Services (CESS) improve health-care quality by systematically identifying and resolving ethical issues. CESS providers should be trained to understand patients' difficulties with existential issues and advocate on their behalf. This study evaluates the effectiveness of educational programs to enhance the competencies to solve ethical issues in clinical practice for CESS providers related to life-sustaining-treatment, based on Jonsen et al.'s "the four topics approach."

Methods

This is an explanatory sequential mixed-method study conducted in quantitative and qualitative phases. Participants included 52 life-sustaining medical workers at general hospitals. The participants were categorized into 24 experimental and 28 control groups, includin

SUBMITTER: Seo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12032674 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature