Purpose End-of-life (EOL) care is considered to be inherently difficult and vulnerable for
patients and nurses. It also seems hard to develop passion for care during these problematic …

Purpose/Objectives: To determine the impact of obstacles and supportive behaviors in end-
of-life (EOL) care as perceived by hospital-based oncology nurses. Design: A 69-item …

Aims and objectives To understand the perceptions of critical care nurses towards providing
end‐of‐life care. Background There has been an increasing interest in end‐of‐life care in …

Background: End of life (EOL) care is newly established in the Iranian context. Context, in
this case, refers to the internal and external manifestation of the nurse values, norms and …

Background: The number of deaths occurring in hospitals is rising, and many occur in
settings other than specialist palliative care, oncology or critical care. Nurses working …

This paper details one of the findings of a large phenomenological study into the effects of
nurse–patient encounters on clinical learning and practice. Every nurse faces the challenge …

Objective: When registered nurses care for patients at the end of life, they are often
confronted with different issues related to suffering, dying, and death whether working in …

Nurses working with cancer patients in end of life care need to be prepared to encounter
patients' psychosocial and spiritual distress. Aim The aim of this study was to describe …

Objective Encountering dying patients with implicit existential questions requires the nurses
to have positive and comfortable attitude to talking about existential issues. This paper …

Objective: Caring for terminally ill patients is complex, stressful, and at times distressing for
nurses. Acute care hospitals continue to be the predominant place of death for terminally ill …