title: [Nurses' knowledge about the health care proxy and advance directives].
abstract: The Basse-Normandie palliative care nurses' group carried out a survey regarding nurses' knowledge of the health care proxy and advance directives. The study revealed a lack of connection between these two arrangements, poor knowledge about advance directives but an understanding of the role of the health care proxy. How, therefore, can patients be effectively informed? How should they be supported in this process of determining themselves the conditions of their end of life?
authors.affiliation: Unité mobile douleur et soins palliatifs, CHU Caen, Avenue de la Côte de Nacre, CS 30001, 14033 Caen cedex 9, France. Electronic address: georget-jp@chu-caen.fr.
authors.forename: Jean-Philippe
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Georget
authors.affiliation: Unité mobile douleur et soins palliatifs, CHU Caen, Avenue de la Côte de Nacre, CS 30001, 14033 Caen cedex 9, France.
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cecire-Denoyer
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D002983:Clinical Competence; D005602:France; D064946:Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D019727:Proxy / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence
keywords: Leonetti Law; Loi Leonetti; advance directive; directive anticipée; health care proxy; infirmière; nurse; personne de confiance