Gloria Jackson, DNP graduate, along with Iris Padilla, assistant professor, and Susan Schneider, associate professor, recently published an article in the Journal of Doctoral Nursing Practice entitled "Optimizing Advanced Care Planning in Hospitalized Patients With Advanced Cancers: A Quality Improvement Initiative."

Advance care planning (ACP) that generates an advanced directive (AD) can ensure patient autonomy at end of life. ACP is challenging for healthcare providers. Delaying patient ACP may lead to poor quality end-of-life care. Facilitation of early ACP by bedside RNs and social workers (SWs) may improve end-of-life care.