Nurses' Perceptions of Facilitating Advance Care Planning Conversations in the Emergency Department.

Nurses are well positioned to initiate advance care planning (ACP) conversations because of their unique strength in communication and central patient-facing role in the interdisciplinary team. Nurse-led ACP conversations have demonstrated promising results in settings outside of the emergency department (ED). Understanding ED nurses' perspectives regarding ACP conversations is needed before implementing similar practices in the ED.

Long-Term Prognosis of Older Adults Who Survive Emergency Mechanical Ventilation.

Context: Emergent mechanical ventilation represents an important inflection point in seriously ill older adults' illness trajectories. Data are lacking on the long-term prognosis after surviving mechanical ventilation to inform shared decision making in serious illness conversations.

Objectives: Describe the long-term prognosis of older adults who survive emergency mechanical ventilation to inform shared decision making.