Abstract

The Patient Self-Determination Act passed in 1991 requires staff in health care facilities, such as skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, home health services and primary care offices to ask patients about advanced directives. Despite this, actual completions of advance directives in America remain low. To determine the barriers and facilitators to the completion of advance directives in healthy, non-health care employed individuals aged 45-65. It is believed healthy individuals in this age group both desire the advance directive, and have strong opinions regarding their end of life preferences.

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This dissertation has also been disseminated through the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database. Dissertation/thesis number: 10124279; ProQuest document ID: 1807632084. The author still retains copyright.

Author Details

Michael L. Dion, MS, RN, CCRN, TNCC, CNIII

Sigma Membership

Beta Tau

Type

Thesis

Format Type

Text-based Document

Study Design/Type

Cross-Sectional

Research Approach

Quantitative Research

Keywords:

Advanced Care Directives, End-of-Life Planning, Healthy Populations, Palliative Care

Advisor

Debra Bakerjian

Second Advisor

Jann Murray-Garcia

Degree

Master's

Degree Grantor

University of California, Davis

Degree Year

2016

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None: Degree-based Submission

Acquisition

Proxy-submission

Date of Issue

2022-03-29

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