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Background: The majority of residents in long term care (LTC) facilities are older and frail, with multiple comorbidities and reduced cognitive capacity. Although the evidence suggests that advance care planning (ACP) improves the quality of end-of-life (EOL) care and promotes a good death for residents of LTC, such planning rarely occurs in these settings. Moreover, while nurses are in the ideal position to facilitate ACP, there is a paucity of empirical research examining their engagement in ACP. Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative study was to develop an inductively derived empirical model aimed at understanding the experiences of nurses working in LTC facilities, specifically with regard to their engagement in the ACP process. Design: A constructivist grounded theory (CGT) methodology was used to conduct this study. Symbolic interactionism (SI) and the socio-ecological model (SEM) served as sensitizing theoretical perspectives for this study. Purposive and theoretical sampling were used to recruit 25 registered nurses (RNs) from 18 proprietary and non-proprietary LTC facilities in Winnipeg, Manitoba who had worked a minimum of three months in LTC, were able to read/speak English, and were willing to provide consent to participate in the study. Methods: Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire; in-depth, semi-structured, audio-recorded, face-to-face/telephone interviews; field notes; and memos. Demographic data were analyzed with descriptive statistics. Verbatim transcriptions of the interviews were analyzed with specific CGT coding procedures. Findings: The basic social problem that emerged from the data was that of nurses trying to craft and implement an ACP level that they believed would optimize residents’ comfort in LTC. The empirically derived theoretical model that captured the experiences, processes, and strategies of nurses trying to address the identified social problem was orchestrating comfort: getting everyone on the same page. This