The nurse may be involved in assisting a patient or resident to consider or plan for end-of-life care when the patient is admitted to a hospital or long-term care facility. Or nurse, in their roles as educator, may encounter people in the community who wish to discuss end-of-life care planning. For example. For example, some critical care nurses are activity promoting end-of-life planning through television programs, group discussions, and community meetings. Most patients agree that it is when they are relatively well, which most believe they are even on hospital admission, that they ought to be considering end-of-life care planning (Nolan&Bruder.1997).