According to the ANA, nurse have an important role in educating patients and their families about their options at the end of life. This includes a discussion of the experience and outcomes of such treatment as CPR and ventilation. The description of CPR should be accurate and include all of the elements of resuscitation (aeration with intubation, chest compression, defibrillation, etc.). However, it is important that the nurse allow the patient and family to develop their own opinions and come to their own conclusions. Just as physicians can color their discussions to patients and families with their perspective on life-sustaining intervention, so can nurse. Many nurse have very negative remembrance of CPR (meerabeau, 1996) and it is quite possible for nurses to convey these impression to their patient and the families. Nurses might begin discussion of specific preferences of life-sustaining treatments in a similar way to that which they began discussion of the patient’s values and goals for end-of-life care, such as: “I want you to imagine that you are very close to dying and would not be likely to get better no matter what treatment your doctor prescribed. What type of medical interventions would you want us to try in an attempt to prolong your life and delay your death?”