Quality Improvement: C3 in Advance Care Planning by Villeroy Akere Tah DNP RN

The Collaborative Cultural Competence (C3) in Advance Care planning is a systems approach framework to tackle issues with low Advance Care Planning and Advance Directive completion in American adults and especially African Americans. The factors accounting for the continuous gap in AD completion among African Americans are not well understood. This book initiates the Advance Care Planning Conversation via a quality improvement project in a faith-based community. Collaboration at the micro and macro systems level is important between health care professionals in the acute and primary care settings, faith leaders, and health care providers in their communities. This approach allows patients to receive the care they need while in the community, rather than in an admitted hospital bed.