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 …

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 …

Background: Understanding current end of life (EOL) care delivery in acute care is an
important prerequisite to positively influencing practice, and published New Zealand (NZ) …

Introduction With an increase in the population living with terminal illness, many patients are
accessing EDs during the last days of their life. Yet EDs are often not well prepared to …

Approximately 90% of the UK population spend some time in hospital in their final year of
life, and more than half of the population die in hospital. This review aims to explore the …

Background Providing end-of-life care to patients and their families in the emergency
department (ED) is challenging, with high workloads, the busy environment, and a focus on …

Aim: this literature review aimed to explore qualitative studies in which nurses discussed the
challenges they face when delivering end-of-life care in intensive care units (ICUs). Analysis …

Purpose The aim of this study is to illuminate how nurses working in an intensive care unit
perceive their professional duties regarding end-of-life care based on their end-of-life care …

Objective The quality of end-of-life (EOL) care in acute hospitals is variable and
interventions to improve this care, such as EOL care pathways, are not always used. The …

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 …