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End of life care

The impact of in-house education on staff confidence in delivering palliative and end-of-life care: a service evaluation

The purpose of this study was to evaluate staff confidence levels in delivering palliative and EoLC to patients following attendance at trust education. The secondary purpose was to explore whether...

The ethics of clinically assisted nutrition and hydration in adults and the role of the advanced clinical practitioner

ACPs play a pivotal role in CANH decision-making processes by using their advanced clinical skills and expertise to assess patients' nutritional needs, evaluate the appropriateness of CANH...

In-hospital end-of-life care: an appreciative analysis of bereaved family feedback

In July 2020, a hospital-based specialist nurse for bereavement (JJ) commenced a log of informal feedback, voluntarily provided by a relative of a deceased person during a routine telephone...

Death, dying and caring: exploring the student nurse experience of palliative and end-of-life education

Metasynthesis is a systematic and comprehensive scientific inquiry that takes and integrates all the findings across a set of reports, resulting in a complete description of the experience under...

Level 2 clinical supervision for community practitioners working with palliative and end-of-life care patients

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (2004) guidance describes a four-tier model for the assessment and management of mental health difficulties in patients with cancer..

How do hospital nurses experience end-of-life care provision? A creative phenomenological approach

Interpretive phenomenology was used as the methodology to explore the nurses' experience. The focus of interpretive phenomenology is on understanding the human experience of the ‘life-world’ and is...

Introducing nurse prescribing in Gibraltar: the impact on palliative care

Palliative care is defined as the active holistic care of people with advanced, progressive illness (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), 2021). Specialist palliative care...

Experiences of surgical nurses in providing end-of-life care in an acute care setting: a qualitative study

The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of surgical nurses while caring for the dying patient in an acute care setting..

Transitioning end-of-life care from hospital to the community: case report

This article concerns the case of Martin Jones (not his real name), aged 59 years, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He had undergone a partial pancreatectomy to remove the tumour and was...

Psychological challenges for nurses working in palliative care and recommendations for self-care

Although research in the area remains limited, available studies suggest a number of core challenges facing palliative nurses. These include issues such as the practical challenges of palliative...

Faith-sensitive end of life care for children, young people and their families

Many religions have a strong belief in the sanctity of life, which means that there may be concerns around treatments and care that can be perceived as hastening death, ranging from opioid pain relief...

Preventing and managing device-related pressure ulcers in oncology

‘A DRPU involves interaction with a device or object that is in direct or indirect contact with skin, or implanted under the skin, causing focal and localised forces that deform the localised and...

Managing conversations with patients about death and dying

‘At death you break up: the bits that were you Start speeding away from each other for ever With no one to see.’ .

What are the challenges for nurses when providing end-of-life care in intensive care units?

A comprehensive literature search was conducted between March and July 2018. Key words and synonyms (end of life care, terminal care, nurses, challenges, delivering, provision, quality care, acute...

Using a frame of reference for talking to patients about death and dying

‘When for the last time you close your mouth your words and soul will belong to the world of no place no time.’.

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