Advance Care Planning and Shared Decision-Making: An Interprofessional Role-Playing Workshop for Medical and Nursing Students.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Advance care planning (ACP) is an essential discussion between a health care provider and a patient about their future care during serious illness. In clinical practice, high-quality ACP may be addressed with an interprofessional approach. Role-playing is an ideal method to practice both ACP and shared decision-making before having these conversations with patients.

Methods

This asynchronous role-playing workshop is prefaced with two prerecorded 25-minute videos for faculty and student preparation with one introducing ACP concepts, and one depicting a patient-physician ACP discussion. During the 2-hour workshop, students complete four role-play ACP scenarios with the following roles: patient, family member, nurse, nurse practitioner, and physician. Students rota

SUBMITTER: Grey C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6338169 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature