Prepare a care plan for Mr. Andrews to avoid future dilemmas in fulfilling the wishes of a dying patient

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Mr. Andrews is a 90-year-old male hospice patient who has expressed his desire to “get it over with once and for all.” The chief nursing officer of the facility has just realized that Mr. Andrews’s care plan lacked the necessary documentation to fulfill his wishes at this time and wants to put everything in order so that Mr. Andrew’s wishes will be carried out.

Use this template to complete the assignment: Unit 5 template

Write a care plan for Mr. Andrews, and address the following in the care plan:

• What was Mr. Andrews asking the facility to do?

• Prepare a care plan for Mr. Andrews to avoid future dilemmas in fulfilling the wishes of a dying patient.

The care plan for a dying person (CPDP) should include the following (Queensland Health, 2019):

• Purpose of the CPDP

• Commencement and authorization

• Initial assessment

• Ongoing assessment

• Care after death

• Risk management considerations

• CPDP implementation framework

o Initiate

o Plan

o Deliver

o Sustain

• Decision making on critical issues

• Closure

Deliverable Requirements: A 3-page care plan citing at least 3 sources in APA format

Submitting your assignment in APA format means that, at a minimum, you will need the following:

• Title page: Remember the running head. The title should be in all capitals.

• Length: There should be at least 3 pages.

• Abstract: This is a summary of your paper, not an introduction. Begin writing in third person.

• Body: This begins on the page following the title and abstract pages and must be double-spaced (be careful not to triple- or quadruple-space between paragraphs). The typeface should be 12-point Times New Roman or 12-point Courier in regular black type. Do not use color, bold type, or italics, except as required for APA-level headings and references. The deliverable length of the body of your paper for this assignment is 3 pages. In-body academic citations to support your decisions and analysis are required. Using a variety of academic sources is encouraged.

• Reference page: References that align with your in-body academic sources are listed on the final page of your paper. The references must be in APA format and use appropriate spacing, hanging indents, italics, and uppercase and lowercase for the type of resource used. Remember that the reference page is not a bibliography but a further listing of the abbreviated in-body citations used in the paper. Every referenced item must have a corresponding in-body citation.