Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Hospice Certification of Terminal Illness Research Survey: March 21 through April 3
Posted over 3 years ago by Elaine Crain
The Home Health and Hospice Coalition is a group of 12 professional organizations who represent Advanced Practice Providers as well as Physicians. While Nurse Practitioners and Physicians Assistants may continue to serve as primary care providers for their patients who enter hospice, they cannot sign the Certification of Terminal Illness (CTI) that allows their patient to receive the hospice benefit. Clinical Nurse Specialists cannot even serve as primary providers once their patients enter hospice.
The purpose of the Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Hospice Certification of Terminal Illness Research Survey is to identify the barriers to continuity of care for patients of APPs when they are admitted to Hospice. Participation in this 25 question survey is completely voluntary and you can change your mind at any time. There is a rare risk that some of the questions may make you uncomfortable, but you make skip questions you don't want to answer. The survey should not take more than 10-15 minutes to complete. It will provide data and anecdotal stories to be used for advocacy to encourage passage of laws to allow APPs to sign the CTI and for Clinical Nurse Specialists to continue to follow their patients as Primary Care Provider.
If you are an APP who has referred a patient to hospice, we invite you to participate in completion of the research survey. We are not collecting any identifying information, but as with any research survey, 100% confidentiality cannot be guaranteed. De-identified data will be shared with all 12 organizations and may be shared with future researchers. Completion of the survey implies consent to include your responses in the data analysis.
If you have referred patients to hospice and you agree to participate you can access the survey using this link: https://cwru.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eyvQS5q1F25CrB4
If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact me:
Evelyn Duffy DNP, AGPCNP-BC, FAANP
Florence Cellar Professor of Gerontological Nursing
Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing
Case Western Reserve University
Principle Investigator
216-368-5485
Thank you so much for your support.