title: Advance care directives: counseling the patient and family in the primary care setting.
abstract: NPs are in an excellent position to provide primary care patients with the appropriate counseling for the development of required advanced care directives before the onset of serious illness and hospitalization. Discussion of how and whom to counsel assists the NP in undertaking this important responsibility encountered by primary care providers.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Towers
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009722:Nurse Practitioners; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*