The Bedside Question
Eliciting authentic preferences
What started with the last wishes just got more complicated. Now you need to elicit and document goals of care that reflect the patient's values, not just the family's fears — and the situation is shifting faster than your first approach can handle.
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The Last Wishes
→What do they actually want? Not what the family assumes. Navigate the conversation about last wishes that nobody wants to start.
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End-of-Life Care Conversations
→The prognosis conversation, the family meeting about care goals, the last wishes that nobody wants to talk about. Navigate the most important healthcare conversations with compassion and clarity. You'll navigate four escalating scenarios — from the prognosis to the good death — practicing the decisions that matter most when the pressure is real and the stakes are personal. This isn't theory. It's practice for the moments that define how this chapter of your life unfolds.
What you'll learn from The Bedside Question
This scenario focuses on Eliciting authentic preferences — a critical skill inside the broader healthcare domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of The Last Wishes, a full interactive story inside the End-of-Life Care Conversations quest.
Skills you'll build in End-of-Life Care Conversations
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You sit at the bedside and ask the question nobody else will — what do you actually want? Not what the family assumed, not what's convenient, but what matters to the person whose life this is.
This is the moment you've been building toward. Honoring someone's last wishes when the family's instinct is to fight for more time — except now the stakes are real and there's no rehearsal. What you do next matters.
You've faced the hardest part. Now turn what you've learned into something sustainable — a way to elicit and document goals of care that reflect the patient's values, not just the family's fears not just today, but every time this situation returns.
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