How can nurses be proactive to involve palliative care earlier in the patient’s illness trajectory? In this episode, special guest Dr. Janice Linton, palliative care nurse practitioner and assistant professor at Nova Southeastern University in Florida, discusses how to lead your team to foster connections with families in order to educate and guide decisions on the use of palliative care. This episode is brought to you by: AACN’s Fundamental Skills for Nurse Managers, with information available at www.aacn.org/managercourse