Ethical Considerations in Health Care: Advanced Healthcare Planning

Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal – Advanced Healthcare Planning
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Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal – Advanced Healthcare Planning
Advanced healthcare planning represents one of the contemporary areas triggering ethical issues in healthcare. Healthcare providers reveal that engaging their patients in such discussions is always challenging, especially those involving end-of-life and associated care. Patients often solicit the assistance of practitioners to document their care preferences and selection of the person they would want to take charge of making health-related decisions in their later life. The likely resistance from family members after assisting patients in these aspects highlights the sensitivity due to differing opinions and perspectives towards care.
Ethical conflicts regarding end-of-life or critical care decisions often emerge in healthcare settings. In this context, Sjцberg et al. (2021) consider routine documentation of the patient’s preferences a strength any healthcare professional can display. The article recognizes this process as a progressive approach to informing the advice they provide to these patients and incorporating a holistic approach to their care. It is often a concern that professionals can become swayed by the inputs of caregivers, making it challenging to implement and ...