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

Goals of work Discussing end-of-life issues is of key importance to terminally ill cancer
patients and their families, and a challenging topic for both health professionals and …

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 …

Context When a patient receives a cancer diagnosis, existential issues become more
compelling. Throughout the illness trajectory, patients with cancer are cared for in oncology …

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 …

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore health care staff's opinions about what
existential issues are important to patients with cancer and staff's responsibility when …

The aim of this study is to describe cancer patients' existential reflections and how these
reflections were met by the nursing staff. A qualitative method of data collection was used …

Background Cancer patients who have reached the terminal stage despite attempts at
treatment are likely to experience various problems, particularly as they encounter …

The aim of this study was to find out, through qualitative in depth interviews, if cancer
patients in an Oncology ward always want to talk about their feelings and difficult emotions …

Purpose/Objectives: To characterize oncology nurses' attitudes toward care at the end of life
(EOL) and their experiences in caring for terminally ill patients, hospice discussions with …