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- Title
Code Status: Implications for Patient Care.
- Authors
Greeley, R. Jill
- Abstract
The purpose of this poster presentation is to provide nurses with the important terms they will encounter when dealing with code status, and to provide information on the ethical and legal implications of code status. By providing this information in poster form, nurses' knowledge regarding code status can be refreshed, while expanding the knowledge base for some nurses. This can lead to nurses being able to better educate and support clients in making the appropriate decision for them. Nursing care is entering a new era. Patients are more informed about their health than ever before. As patients are empowered to make informed health decisions, they are often opting for limited code status. This makes navigating code status more complicated. Nurses play an important role in educating their patients about code status and the associated issues. Often, nurses find themselves having trouble with understanding all of the ethical and legal implications of a patient's code status. This makes it extremely difficult to educate patients when they do not have a good understanding themselves. Most nursing schools include core curriculum on death and dying, but information is often limited; 62% of nurses report that content on end-of-life care in their basic nursing education was inadequate (Hebert, Moore & Rooney, 2011). Nurses deserve to be properly educated about code status. This presentation is one way for increasing nurses' knowledge in this area.
- Subjects
DO-not-resuscitate orders; NURSING
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2016, Vol 26, Issue 3, p7
- ISSN
0843-6096
- Publication type
Article