Background End-of-life care is provided in a variety of healthcare settings, not just palliative
care hospitals. This is one reason why it is very important to assess all barriers to end-of-life …

Aims To examine registered nurses' attitudes about end‐of‐life care and explore the barriers
and facilitators that influence the provision of high‐quality end‐of‐life care. Design A …

Background and aim Patient deaths are common in the intensive care unit, and a nurse's
perception of barriers to and supportive behaviors in end-of-life care varies widely …

We investigated on a nationwide level the attitudes of nurses towards end-of-life decisions
(ELDs) that may hasten death and towards their role in those decisions. We took a …

Background With advances in medicine and technology, intensive care units (ICUs) have
the capacity to treat patients who would have previously not been expected to survive and …

Background More patients are dying in non-palliative care settings than in palliative care
settings. How health care providers care for adult patients at the end-of-life stage in non …

Aim: To investigate critical care nurses' perceptions of barriers and supportive behaviors in
providing end of life (EOL) care to dying patients and their families. Methods: The study …

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 …

Aim The aim of this study was to describe, evaluate and synthesise the literature on
registered nurses' knowledge, attitudes and beliefs towards end-of-life care in adult non …

Aim: Experiences of family members of terminally ill patients with hospital end-of-life care
were explored. The study is part of a larger study that investigated patients' and families' …