Abstract Purpose/Objectives: To explore the meanings and uses of an expressed desire for
hastened death in seven patients living with advanced cancer. Design: A phenomenologic …

Cancer threatens our very existence; when pain is also present, suffering is compounded
and leads to spiritual distress. This article presents a nursing strategy to deal with the …

Background Despite the growing incidence of cancer among older people, little is
understood about how older patients and their family caregivers experience receiving a …

Aim To describe the impact of unrelieved patient suffering on nurses working with palliative
care patients. Design This was a qualitative descriptive design using semi-structured …

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 …

The experiences of nurses working in end-of-life care, particularly those caring for cancer
patients in the hospice setting, have been well researched. Yet despite the fact that intensive …

The oncology practice setting can be a highly emotional workplace because nurses provide
care to many of the same patients and their families over time. Comparing and contrasting …

Objective: Our world is rapidly becoming a global community, which creates a need to
further understand the universal phenomena of death and professional caring for dying …

This article presents the findings from an interpretive phenomenology study looking at
nurses' experiences of supporting cancer patients in their search for meaning. Eleven …

Nurses who care for dying patients are under pressure emotionally because of their beliefs
and values about death as well as the emotions and reactions of the patients and their …