Document advance care planning conversations
Document advance care planning conversations when they happen and ensure people have up-to-date print copies of their documents.
Documentation for healthcare providers
The following documents should be included in a person’s health record:
Advance Care Planning/Goals of Care Designation Tracking Record
- Use this form to document advance care planning conversations.
Personal Directive
- Encourage people to share a copy with you and file it in their health record.
- Healthcare providers have a legal duty to:
- Make reasonable efforts to obtain personal directives and to enact them if the person lacks the capacity to make a required decision.
- Once enacted, follow the instructions of the agent (informed by the personal directive) or, if there is no agent, follow relevant instructions in the personal directive.
Goals of Care Designation Order
- It is important for individuals to have a Goals of Care Designation order when full resuscitative care is not what they want or is not medically appropriate.
- Use advance care planning conversations and personal directives to introduce goals of care discussions and vice versa.
For more information see:
- Find more in the resources section.
Documentation for patients
Ensure people have up-to-date print copies of the following in their Green Sleeve:
- Advance Care Planning/Goals of Care Designation Tracking Record
- Their personal directive
- Goals of Care Designation Order (if applicable)
Encourage people to:
- Upload a copy of their personal directive to their MyHealth Alberta Account (https://myhealth.alberta.ca/account) so it can be accessed via Connect Care.
- Periodically review and update their personal directive as needed.
- Bring their Green Sleeve to their medical appointments.
- Keep the Green Sleeve on their fridge where healthcare providers are trained to look for it in an emergency.