This study describes the impact of multiple deaths on nursing staff who work exclusively with
palliative care patients in the community and identifies the types of workplace support …

To identify dominant themes characterizing patients' perspectives on death during their last
months of life, an ethnographic technique of interviewing and an inductive qualitative …

Objectives: Palliative medicine is a rewarding field, but providers encounter patient trauma
on a routine basis. Compassion fatigue, marked by burnout, secondary traumatic stress, and …

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 …

Caregivers experience multiple losses during the downhill trajectory of a loved one's
terminal illness. Using mixed methods, this two-stage study explored caregiver grief during a …

In this article, the authors select two categories of dying patients,“troubled” and “credible,”
from two larger studies conducted in three palliative care settings. They explore how nurses …

Objective Little is known about positive emotion communication (PEC) in end-of-life care.
This study aims to identify types and patterns of PEC among hospice nurses, caregivers, and …

WHAT EMOTIONAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESSES do nurses experience from
repeated contct with dying patients? What kinds of dying patients are most difficult to care …

Little is known about how American nurses understand and respond to requests made by
decisionally capable patients for assistance in dying. This article is based on a broader …

The nursing literature suggests that talking and listening to patients about issues associated
with death and dying, is both important and difficult, and may be improved with training. This …