End-of-life care is one part of nursing that many nurses are not fond of administering. The
procedure for administering end-of-life care and the rationales for providing such care can …

Developing Practical Nursing Skills; Foundations for Nursing and Healthcare Students Page
1 15 Palliative and end-of-life care (EoLC) is an important aspect of nursing. Around 500,000 …

Twenty retrospective patient case studies were collated in an acute care teaching hospital
using a case note audit and in addition interviews were undertaken with 40 nursing staff …

Goals-of-care discussions aim to establish patient values for shared medical decision-
making. These discussions are relevant towards end-of-life as patients may receive non …

In recent years, numerous developments have focused attention on medical decisionmaking
for critically and terminally ill patients. Traditionally, such decisionmaking was confined …

This study explored how provider comfort and experience, as perceived by providers and
family, affected timing and content of end-of-life care planning. The sample consisted of 20 …

The article reports on the finding in a study titled" National Care of the Dying Audit for
Hospitals" published by the Royal College of Physicians of London in England that there …

Current recommendations about the care of dying patients advise that healthcare
professionals understand and respect the goals, priorities, needs, and suffering of each …

In the more than 30 years since the inception of critical care units, we have seen a nearly
180 degree shift in how we care for those critically ill who die. In the earliest years of ICU …

Conversations between patients and home care nurses (HCNs) regarding patients' values,
priorities and goals of care are considered an essential component of all healthcare, in …