DEVELOPING AN ADVANCE CARE PLANNING GUIDANCE TOOL

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DEVELOPING AN ADVANCE CARE PLANNING GUIDANCE TOOL

• PENNY ABBINGTON Project Officer
• NNE Palliative Care Planning Project
• HN McLean Memorial Retirement Village, Inverell

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PREAMBLE

• Introduction
• Why - develop such a tool?
• How - is the tool being utilised?
• Why - develop advance care planning?
• How is it being implemented?
• Application - Case Study.

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WHY THE DEVELOPMENT

• Consultation with key stakeholders
• Needs / wants identified
• Matching needs with expected
  outcomes for stakeholders project

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WHY THE DEVELOPMENT

• Identifying the tasks of the care planning
  guidance tool-
• Reflect care philosophy in the Guidelines to a
  Palliative Approach in RAC
• broad applicability across the care continuum
• prompt questions / provide answers
• provide range of validated assessment tools
• Naming the tool

Care Planning Guidance Tool IF and THEN Model
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Care Planning Guidance Tool IF and THEN Model

• Summarises, encapsulates key components of the
  Guidelines to a Palliative Approach
• Comprehensive, concise compact
• All aspects of the Guidelines, but condensed
• Most importantly, user friendly and useful

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Care Planning Guidance Tool IF and THEN Model

• Construction 3 sections
• Section 1 summary of expert knowledge
• Section 2 Prompt tool
• Section 3 Validated assessment tools and
  expert information
• So where to next?

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HOW - UTILISATION

• Trial implementation
• File audit pre implementation
• Education
• Aspects utilised separately-
• end of life care plan/pathway
• assessment tools
• advance care planning

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WHY Develop Advance Care Planning?

• Choice and decision making
• End of life discussion
• Evidence based, best practice
• Guidelines to a Palliative Approach in RAC
• National Palliative Care Standards
• Respecting Patient Choices
• From theory to action

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HOW Is Advance Care Planning Being Implemented?

• Education targets
• Advance care planning becomes normalised
• Informal occurrence
• Structured undertaking

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TOOLS for EDUCATION
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EDUCATION DELIVERY
Community groups such as CWA, Probus, Rotary,
Lions, Senior Citizens
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OUTCOMES
(from presentations to the general public)
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• advance care plans developed
• documented plan of treatment
• nomination of enduring guardian.
• staff educated
• information packs/brochure
• information dissemination

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IN CONCLUSION.

• We can do it!
• Documented or dictated
• The goal