| Barriers exist to early implementation of quality palliative care, including lack of education for clinicians. A project was developed to evaluate the effectiveness of a computer-based program on advance care planning. A pilot study was conducted with a convenience sample of six nurses at a community hospital. Participants completed an advance care planning knowledge survey pre- and post-exposure to the computer program. The mean score of the pre- and post-intervention survey increased from 85.3% to 90.2%. Nurses demonstrated increased comfort in discussing end-of-life decisions. All participants would recommend the program to their patients. The computer-based decision aid is a tool that can increase advance care planning knowledge for nurses. Further research is needed to identify effective nursing educational tools for palliative and end-of-life care.;Keywords: advance care planning, palliative care, nursing education, patient preferences. |
