A framework for nurses working in partnership with substitute decision-makers for people living with advanced dementia: A discursive paper

Autor: Susan Fiona Lee, Sarah Jane Cresp, Cheryle Moss
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of clinical nursingREFERENCES. 31(13-14)
ISSN: 1365-2702
Popis: Aim To describe and discuss clinical strategies for nurses working in partnership with substitute decision-makers for people living with advanced dementia. Background By providing person-centred care to patients living with advanced dementia, nurses are positioned to work in partnership with substitute decision-makers who make healthcare decisions related to advanced care. Because the experience of being substitute decision-makers is complex and stressful, nurses need skillsets for working in partnership with substitute decision-makers. Design In this discursive paper, an innovative framework for working in partnership with substitute decision-makers is proposed. Method Evidence-based findings from a systematic review provided five domain foci for the partnership framework. In each domain, two clinical strategies were discursively proposed. Clinical strategies were hypothesised from research findings and insights from the authors' nursing experiences. Then, topical literature was searched, and findings were used to support the discursively argued strategies. Discussion To deal with complexities and reduce stress for substitute decision-makers, an innovative Nurse-Substitute Decision-Maker Partnership Framework for use in the context of advanced dementia is proposed and discussed. The partnership framework consists of five domains: Building trust, Exploring emotions, Translating quality of life, Encouraging proactivity and Negotiating families. Within these domains, ten strategies to support the practices of clinical nurses to work in partnership with substitute decision-makers are discussed. Relevance to clinical practice In the framework, the ten clinical nursing strategies are designed to provide targeted care to substitute decision-makers in areas that are known to cause complexity and stress to them. The Nurse-Substitute Decision-Maker Partnership Framework has been designed to improve nurse-substitute decision-maker partnerships and reduce the stress experienced by substitute decision-makers as they work through the complexities associated with advanced dementia.
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