Understanding Advance Care Planning
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Understand Advance Care Planning
Level 3:
Credit Value: 3
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Tutor Name | Jemma Finche |
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Understanding the principles of advance care planning
Many people, by the time they reach the end of their lives, have multiple conditions and complex needs that require a proactive, coordinated response. Making appropriate plans to meet a person’s changing needs and aid timely transitions to end of life care are critical components of the quality improvement process in health and social care. The process of planning often involves multi-disciplinary teams working across local health, social care and voluntary sector services and an on-going dialogue with a person and those close to them about how to meet their current needs and those that can be anticipated in the future. Meeting the current needs require the preparation of care plans, whereas meeting the future needs is covered by the preparation of an advance care plan (ACP).
A care plan (sometimes known as a ‘support plan’) documents the care and treatment actions necessary to meet a person’s needs, preferences and goals of care. These must have been agreed with the person receiving care or by those acting in the person’s best interests. Where care plans are made for someone who lacks capacity to participate in care planning, they may include reference to an...
Level 3:
Credit Value: 3
Learner Name | |
Learner Registration Number | |
Tutor Name | Jemma Finche |
Assessor/s Name/s | |
Centre Name / Number | |
Unit Sign Off Learner |
Learner Signature: Date: 16/03/15I confirm the information within this assignment is my own work. |
Unit Sign Off Assessor / Tutor |
Assessor / Tutor Signature: Date:I confirm that the evidence within this assignment has been assessed against the assessment criteria for this unit and has been judged for validity, authenticity, currency, reliability and sufficiency. |
Understanding the principles of advance care planning
Many people, by the time they reach the end of their lives, have multiple conditions and complex needs that require a proactive, coordinated response. Making appropriate plans to meet a person’s changing needs and aid timely transitions to end of life care are critical components of the quality improvement process in health and social care. The process of planning often involves multi-disciplinary teams working across local health, social care and voluntary sector services and an on-going dialogue with a person and those close to them about how to meet their current needs and those that can be anticipated in the future. Meeting the current needs require the preparation of care plans, whereas meeting the future needs is covered by the preparation of an advance care plan (ACP).
A care plan (sometimes known as a ‘support plan’) documents the care and treatment actions necessary to meet a person’s needs, preferences and goals of care. These must have been agreed with the person receiving care or by those acting in the person’s best interests. Where care plans are made for someone who lacks capacity to participate in care planning, they may include reference to an...