THEME: "Leading Innovations and Advancing Nursing Practices toward Better Healthcare"
National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
Title: The process of sub-healthy patients participating in their advanced decisions about end-of-life
She have been a registered nurse in charge of palliative care and community care at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital in northern Taiwan for 10 years. In 2019, Taiwan passed the Patient Right to Autonomy Act, which allows people to exercise medical autonomy through Advance Caring Planning (ACP), which helps people and their families understand what they can do to make legal advance medical decisions. Now, she devote herself to this field to encourage people to participate in advanced decisions to help them improve their quality of care at the end of life.