Interview of Roland Brummer – ACP Facilitator Volunteer

​What is your past experience in healthcare? (i.e. experience as a Nurse in the Cancer unit at SC Hosp., etc.)

I was a staff nurse on the cancer unit of St. Cloud Hospital from 1989-2017 and am now retired. When I was a cancer nurse, I often cared for cancer patients who had not written out a Healthcare Directive and were unable to speak for themselves. In these situations, if they hadn’t talked previously to their loved ones about their wishes at the end of life, their loved ones usually chose to have aggressive treatments done for them. I often wondered if these cancer patients really wanted all the aggressive treatments we were giving them.

You’ve trained as an Advance Care Planning Facilitator and volunteer with Light the Legacy at Whitney Senior Center – tell me about that.

In order to help persons who come to Whitney Center to fill out their Healthcare Directives, I received Advance Care Planning training from Light The Legacy. I have found it very rewarding to help people write down their wishes as they fill out their Healthcare Directives.

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