Graduation Semester and Year

2016

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Nursing Practice

Department

Nursing

First Advisor

Maureen R Courtney

Abstract

The majority of people never discuss their choice of treatment in end-of-life issues and do not have an advance directive (AD). The cause may be due to the lack of organized efforts to achieve completion of ADs. This project used a quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design to determine if an educational intervention increased the completion of an AD. Project results showed that the combination of repeated written and verbal educational information about ADs provided via a primary care setting is an effective intervention to increase completion of ADs. A convenience sample revealed 14% of 90 primary care clinic patients had a completed AD. Following the educational intervention for those patients without an AD, the completion rate was 56% (p=0.01 , 95% Confidence). The overall completion percentage in the clinic sample increased to 62%. These results were both clinically and statistically significant, (p <0.05, 95% Confidence).

Disciplines

Medicine and Health Sciences | Nursing

Comments

Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington

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