TY - JOUR T1 - Nursing home residents prefer fewer interventions and the nursing home instead of hospital for place of death JF - Evidence Based Nursing JO - Evid Based Nurs SP - 24 LP - 24 DO - 10.1136/eb-2016-102522 VL - 20 IS - 1 AU - Julie Watson Y1 - 2017/01/01 UR - http://ebn.bmj.com/content/20/1/24.abstract N2 - Commentary on: Ng CW, Cheong SK, Govinda Raj A, et al. End-of-life care preferences of nursing home residents: results of a cross-sectional study. Palliat Med 2016;30:843–53.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedEnd-of-life care preferences of residents in nursing homes confirm the importance of developing practice to ensure high-quality end-of-life is delivered.The role and competencies required of nurses working in nursing homes in supporting the end-of-life preferences of residents requires more research.The importance of nursing homes as places where people die, and the need to support nursing homes to deliver end-of-life care, is increasingly recognised in many countries. Advance care planning (ACP), including identifying preferences for medical interventions, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and preferred place of death, is a key facet of a palliative care approach and a pre-requisite to achieving quality end-of-life care. Ng and colleagues identify nursing home resident characteristics associated … ER -