Healthcare Treatment Planning-
Goals of Care Conversation
Jennifer Clark is a Nurse Practitioner with more than 25 years of experience helping people live their best lives. Sha has specialized training and has worked in Palliative Care at some of the most esteemed medical institutions in the world. Jennifer has the medical knowledge, communication skills, and passion to help people live their lives in a way that they define as meaningful. Her role has been to help people explore and define their life values and goals, so that their healthcare treatment aligns with these documented values and goals.
Your Life Values and Goals
Jennifer will discuss and document each person’s life values and goals so that they can be understood in the context of medical treatment options which act as a guide for a person’s medical team when trying to decide if a potential medical treatment option is in alignment with the person’s stated life values and goals, and tradeoffs the person is willing to undergo while hoping/expecting to achieve a certain functional outcome for their efforts with treatment.
This in-depth conversation and documentation around a person’s life goals and values goes way beyond the document of a typical Advanced Directive of Health Care or even a Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment form with the numerous check boxes and signatures.
This goals of care conversation and corresponding documentation may occur once, or be re-examined annually, biannually, or at whatever frequency is needed by the person as she/he feels her/his life values require updating.
This preemptive conversation and thorough and clear documentation with Jennifer, saves the struggle and pain otherwise placed upon loved ones of ill family members from having to make usually big decisions about their loved-one’s medical treatment.
Benefits of Planning Ahead
Jennifer looks forward to connecting with you to arrange a time to meet, discuss, and document these very important issues and leave you with peace of mind, that your values are documented should you ever be in a position to not speak for yourself regarding serious medical treatment.
Contact Me for an Appointment
Everything influences Everything, and I will work with you to promote your best mental, spiritual, and physical well-being.